Steve Cooley cuts into Kamala Harris' lead in attorney general's race

Cooley, a Republican, cut 1,331 votes from Harris' lead in Thursday's count of vote-by-mail, provisional and damaged ballots.

Harris, a Democrat, has 4,245,849 votes to Cooley's 4,216,450, or 45.9 percent versus 45.6 percent, according to figures released by the Secretary of State's Office.

Harris held a 30,730-vote lead entering Thursday's ballot count.

There are 670,994 uncounted ballots remaining - 249,002 vote-by-mail ballots, 378,254 provisional ballots and 43,738 that are either damaged, could not be machine-read and need to be remade and ballots diverted by optical scanners for further review, according to the Secretary of State's Office.