If you live in neighborhoods or regions such as Silver Lake, Hollywood, Culver City, Koreatown, South LA or the Westside, there is a good chance there's a polling place waiting to take your vote (see a map and more info on today's election here). In fact, the County of Los Angeles is spending $2.2 million on today's primary election for the 26th State Senate seat vacated by Mark Ridley-Thomas when before he became an LA County Supervisor. Brian Frank, Co-Editor of Neon Tommy, finds that only a third of the 393,017 registered voters bothered showing up in the 2006 race for this seat. He also speaks to a group residents "whom express disillusionment and resentment over the political process." More info on the candidates can be found on Smart Voter. The blog Biking in LA and blogger Josh Haden also covered the candidates. 
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of the, like, 23 of you who are going to vote today -- anyone assigned to a ridiculously far-away polling place? i just mapped mine, and it's 10 miles away from where i live. i called the county registrar and they're looking into it, but just wondering if i should be formulating some conspiracy theory about excluding echo park/silver lake from the vote today...
One option is to map out all the locations and see if there is any areas that have more or less polling places.
10 miles away?? Yikes. That is crazy. There must be some kind of mistake. I'll be curious to know what you find out from the registrar.
I voted at my usual polling place in Silver Lake today (The Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic Meeting Room on Sunset Blvd.).
I walked in at 12:30pm and was greeted with cheers and squeals of delight by the poll workers. They said I was number 14.
As I pushed away the tumbleweeds and looked toward the voting booths I noticed there were no machines. Just the empty booths and some EXPO markers. They handed me a ballot and said to just fill it in... old school style. Have never seen that before.
The poll workers there are really nice and parking was easy.
Hey starsonep - is this one closer to your house than the one that came up when you plugged in your address?? It is 3324 Sunset - cross street is Micheltorena.
Oops - I meant to ask othercities that question re: polling place location, not starsonep.
Anyway... hope people get out and vote. Kudos to Zach for reminding everyone.
I did indeed vote in Hollywood this morning, around 8:15, in an otherwise voter-devoid room.
Me: "...Are you guys open yet?"
Workers: "You're actually here to vote?!"
So, yeah. Slow day.
By the way, Josh's URL above is actually joshhaden.blogspot.com.
Rizzo: I was No. 7 at that polling place at 9 a.m.. Slow day for those good fellas tending the ballot box. And yeah, the primitive voting method was fun.