No, we're not a month ahead of ourselves. Confused? Brian Leubitz at Calitics explains: "While it might not be November 4 yet, today is the day that vote by mail ballots are sent out to the masses. Furthermore, in government buildings across the state, early voting begins today. Folks, every day between now and the 4th is Election Day. While about half of the vote will actually come on election day, in some counties large......

Photo by joebeone via Flickr For over a year now, Los Angeles resident Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? has been traveling the country asking one eponymous question: Why Tuesday? It's to prove that the reason we vote on Tuesdays is outdated and may not be the strongest day for voter participation (the long answer is below). Currently, the Weekend Voting Act is in both the House and the Senate, introduced by Representative Steve Israel......

From Why Presidents’ Day? via Why Tuesday? No, not tomorrow Tuesday... the first Tuesday of November, aka Election Day. Why Tuesday? Executive Director and local Los Angeles politico Jacob Soboroff reports from Queens, New York asking why can Presidents' Day, a federal holiday, be moved around for convenience, but Election Day remains a regular workday. Is it not that important? LAist: If election reform successfully moved election day to a Saturday, what would that......

Today is the first day you can sign up to be an absentee voter in California for the Feb.5 Primary. To do so, click here and fill out the form. The application must be received by election officials no later than midnight on Jan. 29. More than half the total votes in California's Primary could be mailed in, and many of those ballots will be cast long before Election Day. (AP) The use of......

LAist had the opportunity to catch up with Jacob Soboroff, Executive Director of Why Tuesday to talk about WT, their upcoming projects and politics. Jacob has worked as a part time advance man for NYC Michael Bloomberg and briefly played the same role for presidential candidate Howard Dean. He moved back from NYC to his hometown of Los Angeles last year, when I first met him, and since returning has video blogged for LA......

The TelePromTer-readers and out-of-touch-hate-mongers of the mainstream media thought that they were being super-cool by discussing/bitching about the presidential candidate debates that were posted on YouTube. So since that new, interesting, and youth-vote promoting aspect of the next election has been talked to death by the talking-heads, I have found these candidate related webpages to occupy me during my early in the ante meridian down-time: At SuperBook.com, you can go to their "Exotic Lines"......

Well, depending on where you live, some of us vote. If you got that Voter Info packet in the mail, it is important that you are one of the numbers talked about in tomorrow's news as one of the few who voted. Here are today's races: - Assembly District 39 (East and Northeast Valley, here's a map) - LAUSD District 3 (lots of Valley) - LAUSD District 7 (parts of South LA to the Harbor)......

We get these e-mail every so often. The ones that go "April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight. On May 15th 2007, all internet users are to not go to a gas station in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places." That's nice and all, but we rather see it tell people......

Since I was hired to work on one of the LAUSD campaigns as an e-mail marketer, I have been keeping my mouth shut on this blog about it. And I am not going to sit here and tell you why you should vote for my candidate in the runoff election or am I really going to talk about "life on the e-campaign trail," but I am going to tell you that this election was......

Back in November we approved Propositions 1A and 1B, bonds that gave $19.9 billion in transportation funding throughout the state. On Friday, California transportation officials recommended cutting more than $1 billion worth of freeway projects sought for Los Angeles County - including funding for a northbound car-pool lane on the San Diego (405) freeway. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other officials are obviously not pleased and will be asking residents to step it......

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. ~ Barack Obama It's absolutely vital that every one of us votes today. If you're not 100% sure where to go to vote, you can find out easily at Election Protection 365. Last Minute Catch-Up on what we're voting on: LA Weekly | LA Times The 2006 LAist Award for Election Coverage goes to Green LA Girl. Her......

True Football David Beckham to join the Los Angeles soccer scene? Vote Tomorrow There's some confusion over voter trouble tomorrow. CBS2 helps you prepare. Over at City Hall Zuma Dogg over at Mayor Sam is following the medical marijuana dispensary story. The City disses their own Godfather of blogging. The City also disses the killing of animals for a weekend: In an demonstration of commitment to lifesaving for the homeless animals of Los Angeles,......

It's not even Tuesday and Prop R is history. But thanks to Marty and Doc, we totally know. Why go to the future to get rich off stocks when you can just plan parties over Election Day results? The people behind NCs Opposed to Prop R/Not PropR Committee (NC is lingo for Neighborhood Council) will be partying it up in the lounge at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. "You are cordially invited to join members......

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. ~ Dee Hock Tunnel vision the keywords “Los Angeles city council” in the past few months and one might think LA is corrupt beyond belief. Sure, sketchy things happen: term limits on tomorrow's ballot attached to an ethics reform proposal, Brown Act questions, raised fees and raised salaries. But try this:......

Time flies when you're not registered to vote. Because we live in sit-on-your-ass post-modern times, all you have to do to register is click this link right here, print out the form, fill out the whatnots, and mail it in. If you're already registered, this post will make your life even easier than you expected. How about living like the rich do? Why should you wake up early on Election Day to stand in......

Tuesday, 6/6/06 is Election Day again in California. You can download a voter guide and find your polling place here. You wouldn't know it from the recent run of attack ads, but the two frontrunning Democratic candidates Phil Angelides and Steve Westly have in the past seemed like fairly rational, decent guys. (Disclosure: this LAist contributor volunteered a bit on Angelides's campaign.) They're both state-level finance guys, which seems useful given that California's current......

During the American Idol finale a few weeks ago, nearly 63 million votes were cast. Now while LAist knows that there were probably 63 voters who called Taylor Hicks' or Katherine McPhee’s numbers a million times each, it still makes us mull over ways to get people just as excited about doing their civic duty and vote for the lawmakers, who are supposedly looking out for our best interests locally as well as in......

In case you don't read Tagalog, that there is a sample ballot for the May 17 mayoral election. We've picked our horse and figure we better place our bets early, since we'll be far, far away on election day. Luckily anybody can vote absentee, and it's easy: download the PDF vote-by-mail form, fill it out and send it to the city clerk. They send you your ballot, which you can send back as late......

So, you’re telling us that there’s more than a month until the mayoral election? Shouldn’t we just hold it now? All three of the major challengers (Alarcon, Parks, and Bobzilla Hertzberg) have endorsed Villaraigosa. He’s opened up an 18-point lead on Hahn. Oh, and he holds a large fundraising advantage too. Do we really have to drag this out any further, this slow, Kafkaesque march of an incumbent to his executioners at the polls?......

Over the years LAist has begun to view the local polling place as yet another benefit of participating in the democratic process. Sometimes the room in which we cast a ballot isn’t exciting architecturally, and if it’s a sorry day for voter turn-out, nor is there much in the way of sociological interest. But whether it be a private home, a high school gymnasium, or ranger’s station, more often than not we’ve found ourselves......

The big day is here--municipal election day. Hertzberg, Villaraigosa, and Hahn are the front-runners, as we said a few moons ago. Whether you pick one of those three or the two longshots (Parks and Alarcon) the important thing is to get out and vote. The level of civic engagement in this city is pathetic, and don't let yourself be a part of that disgrace to democracy. As to who we are endorsing? This LAist......

Despite the gargantuan efforts of LA Blogs, LA Voice, LA Observed and our own contributers to keep us informed, LAist is quite worried that we're going to forget it's an election day tomorrow. Didn't we just vote a couple months ago or something? And what are we voting for anyway? Hasn't Arnold been named King of California at this point? Karen Grigsby Bates on today's Day to Day gives a few good reasons why......

It's been a whirlwind election day for this LAist writer. Recently, I have been doing some business in New York, and was not going to be able to make it to Los Angeles for the election. So, like I have done a few times in the past, I sent away for an absentee ballot. I've had absentee ballots sent to my home in LA, and college when I was out of state, and the......

Based on conversations with LA voters from all parts of the city, it appears that lines are the norm at every polling place. Wait times to cast a ballot have varied from 10 minutes to an hour. Despite the wait, people have mostly been friendly and patient, almost as though they understood the importance of doing their civic duty. We'll remind you (yet again) to go vote if you haven't done so already. The......

We here at the A&E Report hate to repeat ourselves. We know we already nagged you a few weeks ago about the importance of voting. But let’s face it, today is Election Day, and not just any Election Day, but a really, really big one. Election Day: Beyond Thunderdome. So rather than whine about people who can’t tell the difference between white parking zones and yellow ones or some nonsense like that, this week’s......

LAist talked with Ezra Klein of the political blog pandagon.net this weekend. Ezra’s been engaged and blogging this election for over a year and a half. His site, which he co-blogs along with Jesse Taylor, boasts around 25,000 hits a day. Needless to say, his voice gets heard (or his words get read). He recently transferred to UCLA from UC Santa Cruz and has much to say about politics, Los Angeles and everything in......

For you LA denizens too busy clawing your way up the “Y” of the Hollywood sign, impaling your souls on the spire of the Capitol Records building, or tending bar at the Saddle Ranch, weeping during smoke breaks, your political apathy is understandable. The LA Weekly (LAW) understands too. On the heels of their bound and bountiful “Best of LA” issue, the LAW keeps on kicking out the jams with their action packed “Holy......