LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Mail-in voting for the California special election begins next week, and Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a warning about waiting until the last second.

"If you want your vote to count, which I assume you do because you're putting it in the mail, don't put it in the mail on Election Day," he said during a Thursday press conference.

The friendly advice for voting early is more of a stern warning for those not living in major California cities.

The advice is specifically for those living more than 50 miles outside Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, San Diego, Sacramento, and Richmond, in the Bay Area, where regional U.S. Postal Service mail processing facilities are located.

For the millions in those areas, the Post Office is no longer promising postmarking mail th

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