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writing four years ago at the then-OC Blog (now Red County). Yet in the
first two hours after the poll's closed tonight, Kelley's operation at
the Orange County Registrar of Voters managed to count only about
1,800 votes in the sheriff's race from just 123 of the county's 2084
precincts. At the curtain rate of processing less than one percent of
the vote every two hours, we may know the election outcomes after the Mayans
predicted the end of the world in 2012.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.