Deadline is today to register to vote in March 8 elections
Today is the deadline to register to vote in March 8 elections that will be held in Los Angeles and 29 other 30 Southland cities.
L.A. voters will consider 10 ballot measures and candidates for seven open seats on the City Council, as well as a handful of school board and community college offices. To get the latest election news, candidate comments and editorial endorsements, check out The Times' elections page.
Voters can register or re-register by filling out and mailing forms that can be picked up at libraries, post offices, fire stations, Department of Motor Vehicles offices and other public buildings. Those forms must be postmarked Feb. 22.
Voter registration is also required for residents of the various communities outside Los Angeles who want to cast ballots for the Los Angeles Unified School District board of education or the Los Angeles Community College District board of trustees.
Ballots are also available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese. For more information, call (213) 978-0444 or toll-free at (888) 873-1000, or check the Los Angeles City Election Division’s website.
In the tiny city of Bell, meanwhile, voters will elect three City Council members and decide whether to recall four others in the wake of a salary scandal that has made national headlines.
And in the Orange County city of San Clemente, voters will consider a development proposed for the North Beach area. For details, check the Orange County election website.
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Voter guide: March 8 Los Angeles Election
-- David Zahniser at Los Angeles City Hall
EDITOR'S PICKS:
Can we please, once and for all time, STOP issuing ballots in 6 different languages? Tagalog? What in the name of heaven is that?
In the US, we speak English! I'll bet English-only ballots would save a couple of hundred thousand dollars. I am thoroughly for legal immigration -- but speaking, writing and reading English must be mandatory!
Posted by: lioness | February 22, 2011 at 02:10 PM
Unless you voted for Boxer or Brown you forfeited your voting privilege.
Posted by: steve rodriguez | February 22, 2011 at 05:26 PM