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Los Angeles 2026 Candidate Position Source History

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Dated evidence · no automated verdict

Source history, without
the “flip-flop” label.

Electionpedia preserves when an exact current campaign statement was observed in an archived capture and when it was observed live. A capture time is evidence of “present by,” never a publication date.

53/57current statements observed in an archive
110dated source observations
126distinct capture fingerprints
8certified candidates covered equally
WHAT THE RECORD PROVES

The exact excerpt appeared by the archived capture time.

Each archived observation proves only that the exact current campaign excerpt appeared in the captured page by that capture time. Capture time is not treated as publication time.

WHAT IT DOES NOT PROVE

No change, consistency, or motive is inferred.

Election.org preserves dated source observations and never generates a flip-flop, reversal, consistency, or what-changed claim from matching excerpts alone.

Eight equal candidate records

Audit the underlying observations

Each candidate page shows the same campaign statements already in the comparison, now connected to its earliest matching archive observation and current live-source observation.

Mayor

Nithya Raman

11position histories11archive-observed

Earliest matching capture in this record:

  • Homelessnessending homelessness
  • Immigrationimmigrants in, ice out
  • HousingHOUSING FOR ALL
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Mayor

Karen Ruth Bass

7position histories7archive-observed

Earliest matching capture in this record:

  • HomelessnessStreet Homelessness Is Down 17.5 percent.
  • HousingMore Housing.
  • Tenant rightsRenter Protections.
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City Attorney

John McKinney

11position histories11archive-observed

Earliest matching capture in this record:

  • Public safetyPublic Safety and Neighborhood Protection
  • Tenant rightsProtecting Renters And Strengthening Housing Stability
  • Workers' rightsStanding with Workers and Strengthening the Workforce
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City Attorney

Marissa Roy

8position histories8archive-observed

Earliest matching capture in this record:

  • Workers' rightsPROTECTING WORKERS' RIGHTS
  • Tenant rightsPROTECTING RENTERS’ RIGHTS
  • Climate & environmentPROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT
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City Council District 3

Barri Worth Girvan

4position histories4archive-observed

Earliest matching capture in this record:

  • Public safetyA Safer West Valley
  • HomelessnessHomelessness: Real Help, with Real Accountability in Our Neighborhoods
  • HousingHousing People Can Afford — Without Overloading the West Valley
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City Council District 9

Estuardo Mazariegos

12position histories12archive-observed

Earliest matching capture in this record:

  • Infrastructure & city servicesDelivering the Basics and Fixing What's Broken
  • Tenant rightsIncreasing Housing Affordablity & Tenant Protections
  • Jobs & local economyReinvesting in Our Local Economy
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Failure stays visible

Archive access is fallible; the record says so.

0 snapshot requests returned an explicit fetch error during the refresh. Of 57 current statements, 53 were located in an accessible archived capture; 4 have current-source evidence only.

Provider: Internet Archive Wayback Machine CDX API · last verified Oct 18, 2026 · this release covers 57 current statements, including 4 without a matching archive observation. It does not cover every historical position or every page ever published.