US-POLITICS-CALIFORNIA-RECALL

A woman drops her ballot into an official ballot dropbox outside the Los Angeles County Registrar's Office in Norwalk, California on September 14, 2021 in the recall election of California Governor Gavin Newsom. Voters went to the polls in California on Tuesday to decide whether to oust the Democratic governor of the most-populous US state or have him serve out the remaining 16 months of his term. Gavin Newsom, 53, who was elected in a landslide in November 2018, is widely expected to survive the quirky recall election, fending off a field of 46 challengers, mostly Republicans. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)