Bass, Raman or Pratt? Three L.A. residents explain who got their vote for mayor

As the voters deliver their ballots to neighborhood drop-off sites and others wait to vote in person Tuesday, Times reporters fanned out across the city to ask residents whom they planned to support for mayor.Here is a sample of what voters said about their preferred candidate.California Some are calling it the most consequential — and uncertain — Los Angeles mayor’s race in a generation.

Here is your last-minute guide.Steven Travers57Glassell ParkSelf-employedVoter Steven Travers told The Times that he didn’t feel like there were many options for him in the mayoral election this year, except for the incumbent Karen Bass.Shopping at Vons in Echo Park, Travers said, “Just what I’ve seen of her, and you know, the way she speaks, she seems to be OK.”“I guess she’s done an OK job since she’s been the mayor,” Travers said.“The people she’s running against, I mean, there’s really nobody else that I think I would want to be in that position.”This decision to vote for Bass, despite the wide field of options, came down to how she had handled homelessness in the city and Travers’ neighborhood of Glassell Park, where there had been homelessness issues “for a period of time.”The issue, Travers said, has been lessened and “certain areas things are getting a little bit cleaned up.

And I’m assuming that she’s, you know, part of that whole thing.”Travers also said that “anybody involved in politics in Los Angeles” seems to always talk about homelessness “more than anything else” and that Bass “seems to be trying to maybe do something about it.”Simply put, “The other choices were not worth my vote,” Travers said.California While the mayor’s race is getting national attention, voters will also decide a pivotal race for Los Angeles City Council that could have profound influence on the direction of local government.Zorah Archie-Winston22View ParkRecent USC graduateZorah Archie-Winston said that she’s probably voti...