With one hour to go, 77.65%, or 3,338,950 people, of registered voters in LA County had voted as of 7:00 p.m., according to estimates by the Registrar-Recorder's office. By comparison, in 2004, 73.45% had voted by 7:00 p.m. and 62.91% in 2000.
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We just spoke to the LA County Recorder-Register's Office who said that 53.4% of voters, or 2,296,200 people, have voted so far--as of 3:00 p.m.--in this election. Despite earlier reports saying these numbers do not include early voting, these numbers actually do include the "vote-by-mail add-on factor," as they call it. Over one million vote-by-mail requests were made for this election, but as of yesterday over 647,000 ballots had been turned in. People may vote by "mail" today by turning their ballot in to any polling place before 8:00 p.m. when polls close. more ›

As of 2:00 p.m., the LA County Registrar-Recorder's Office said that an estimated 48.55%, or 2,087,650 people, of the 4.3 million registered voters have voted already today. This number reportedly does not include the more than 647,000 people who voted by mail or participated in early voting (though, over a million early vote requests were made). "A comparative sample turnout for the 2004 Presidential General Election showed 43.62% for the same time period," an advisory stated. " Samplings from previous year General Elections for the time period ranged from 20.71% in 2002 to 35.69% in 2000." more ›

There are 4.3 million registered voters in LA County and approximately 1,638,601 had voted as of noon today, five hours after polls opened at 7:00 a.m., according to the Registrar-Recorder's office. Polls will close at 8:00 p.m. tonight. more ›

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... more ›