100,000 absentee ballots already in *

Election Day I is finally here. Final campaign wraps in the Times, Daily Breeze and Daily News. Daniel B. Wood of the Christian Science Monitor gets in on the last day too. And from LA.com: "It's a crucial time in Los Angeles right now. Big decisions, new directions. I'm talking, of course, about Fashion Week."

Meanwhile, the Daily Breeze says the non-partisan races in a couple of South Bay beach cities have been overrun with party politics: "In the 50 years I've lived here, I've never seen it this big time."

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