The LA Times reports:

The election in Vernon had a Keystone Kops feel to it almost from the beginning, and certainly on election day with the decision not to count the votes.
It was, among other things, the first contested City Council election in 25 years. The race included a cast of old-guard council members and three new arrivals who managed to keep the election in the courts until election day.
Vernon is unique — some call it peculiar to the extreme — in that it has 86 registered voters even though about 44,000 people work in the city’s five square miles of low-slung industrial and commercial buildings.
This year, three entrenched incumbents were challenged by three candidates who set up residence in the tiny city and filed to run for office. Within days, the building where they were living was red-tagged as unsafe and dangerous and their electricity was cut off.
But after a series of court challenges, the three prevailed and their names were on the Tuesday ballot.
After the polls closed, City Clerk Bruce Malkenhorst Jr. carried a red metal box containing ballots into the council chambers and said it would be kept locked until pending litigation over the election was completed.