Thousands of Los Angeles County voters may not receive their mail-in ballots in time to actually mail them in, county officials said Wednesday.

Clerks were racing to process about 13,000 last-minute vote-by-mail applications while also handling 55,000 remaining voter registrations, said Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan.
 

The 11th-hour backlog could lead to election day confusion, and officials are advising voters who are unsure of their registration or mail-in-ballot status to check the registrar's website at www.lavote.net. Although 220 phone operators are on duty, some callers said they have had difficulty getting through.
 
"We are getting 18,000 phone calls coming in a day," Logan said. "The phone vendors we deal with compared it to what happens when there's an earthquake and the phone lines get jammed."
 
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