LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County Sheriff Roberto Luna He said he wants people to “feel confident that they can go to any polling place and not feel intimidated or afraid that anything could happen.”

For that reason, the Sheriff has been involved in all kinds of meetings for months, planning how security should be implemented in what he calls “a contentious election.”

“We have to worry,” Luna said. “If you look at the rhetoric, you’ll see the back and forth. We always tell people that it’s okay to disagree, but you can’t get into fist fights and you can’t act on your desires for violence.”

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So far, the Sheriff said there are no credible threats to polling places or election workers in the county. And he and Los Angeles County Recorder Dean Logan intend to keep it that way.

“We take the security of the voting process very seriously, but we also take security very seriously,” Logan said.

Logan and the Sheriff have seen the neighborhood polls on fire in Washington and Oregon. Nothing like that has happened here. And Logan said, “All of the boxes we use in Los Angeles County are designed to ensure ballot security, so if something were to happen, the flames could be extinguished quickly.”

The Sheriff said: “We are being informed about that investigation and anything that has to do with that incident.”

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Sheriff’s K9s are also working to prevent toxic materials from being sent with ballots that could impact workers and the counting. Logan said the dogs help “so we don’t have to shut down the operation and continue to provide the services we need to get the process and counting of the ballots done.”

Luna said the goal is simple: “Election security is a top priority for us in Los Angeles County and we are committed to a fair process, free from intimidation or interference.”

And deputies work throughout the process alongside people at the county polling place. They escort your ballots from Los Angeles County’s 648 voting centers, “…to 79 registration centers throughout the county and are then transported by patrol cars or sheriff’s helicopters back to these facilities for counting.”

Sheriff Luna said that on Election Day “if you see something, say something.”