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- The voter turnout just counting mail-in ballots and early voting — 14% in L.A. County, or 625,000 votes — is better than the turnout in many city of Los Angeles elections. Officials recommended voters go to polls between 9 and 11 am or 1 and 4 pm to avoid lines. LAT, Daily News
- Election Day parking rules are in effect in Los Angeles, within a block of a polling place: no time limits, no preferential parking permits, no money in the meter and no street cleaning restrictions, says the mayor's office.
- Lt. Gov. John Garamendi is the top-billed official at the Democrats' party at the Hyatt Century Plaza.
- Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner heads the bill at the Republicans' party at the Hyatt Regency Irvine.
- Bernard Parks will party at the campaign headquarters at 3734 Crenshaw, Mark Ridley-Thomas will be in the Olympic Room at the Century Plaza.
- Proposition 8 opponents will take over the Music Box at the Fonda on Hollywood Boulevard.
- Actress Patricia Arquette is the attraction at the Orange County Democrats' party at the Sutra Lounge in Costa Mesa.
- LACMA's nonprofit Museum Associates donated $900,000 to Measure R, probably to push for the Wilshire subway that would pass in front of the museum. Daily News
- University of California professors and other employees were the largest source of Obama's $84 million in campaign contributions from California. LAT
- UCLA professors are also blogging the final days of the election at The Sprint.
- KPCC's Frank Stoltze makes his video debut, covering an AFL-CIO call center for Obama. Local Frequencies
- The Sacramento Bee rounded up the positions on the ballot measures of the likely candidates for governor, including Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
- Repeater Walter Moore and perennial David Hernandez took out papers to run for mayor on the first day.
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