First Take: Election day

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One race ends and another begins Tuesday as California voters prepare to head to the polls on this primary election day.

Confused about the ballot before you? Check out the Los Angeles Times Voter Guide.

Steve Poizner hammered Meg Whitman during a campaign stop in Pasadena on Monday, and Carly Fiorina used a robocall from Sarah Palin to help boost her campaign.

In other news, Tony Barboza reports that the powerful executive director of the Coastal Commission, Peter Douglas, is stepping aside to battle cancer.

Stay tuned to PolitiCal throughout the day for final dispatches from the campaign trail and election returns as they come in.

-- Anthony York