Los Angeles Voting: State Props, Polling Places & Election Day By The Numbers

Forget Mitt and Barack. Californians have a lot more to worry about besides the next inhabitants of The White House (besides, we've already decided on it).

Our state's ballot initiative system transforms election season into a "magical and confusing time," as HuffPost SF put it, when your retired father-in-law becomes an authority on corporate tax loopholes and your artsy friends become clinical experts on transgenic organisms.

How should we save our schools: a tax on the rich or a tax on all? Should we repeal the death penalty? Label all GMO foods? Impose harsher sentences on human traffickers? Reform the Three Strikes Law?

And for lucky LA County residents, an #OnlyInLA moment at the polls: to wrap or not to wrap?

For all you crammers out there, here's a cheat sheet on the county's three measures and the state's 11 propositions:

LA County - Condoms, Sales Taxes and County Assessor
Proposition 30 - Tax Revenue For Schools
Proposition 31 - Lengthening State Budgeting Cycles
Proposition 32 - Paycheck Deductions For Political Purposes
Proposition 33 - Auto Insurance Discounts
Proposition 34 - Death Penalty Repeal
Proposition 35 - Human Trafficking Sentencing
Proposition 36 - Three Strikes Law Reform
Proposition 37 - GMO Labeling
Proposition 38 - Tax Revenue For Schools
Proposition 39 - Business Tax Restructuring
Proposition 40 - Re-drawing Legislative Districts

But first, you have to find your polling place. All LA County polling places are open from 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. on Nov. 6. And if you're in line by the time the deadline hits, the polling place is legally obligated to stay open until you cast your vote.

Once you're done with the day's civic duty, sport an "I Voted" sticker to get in free at a 7:50 p.m. showing of the new indie film "Democracy at Work." You could also eat and drink your way to election results or rock on at any of these 10 Election Day viewing parties.

Ready... Set... VOTE!

• 18.2 Million

  <strong>18.2 million</strong>: the number of voters <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/california-republican-party_n_2066628.html" target="_hplink">registered in California</a>, an all-time high.

• 29.3 Percent

  <strong>29.3 percent</strong>: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/california-republican-party_n_2066628.html" target="_hplink">GOP registration has dipped below 30 percent</a>, a new low since records have been made available.

• $372 Million

  <strong>$372 million</strong>: The amount of campaign funding <a href="http://maplight.org/data-release/ca-ballot-prop-funding-372m-raised-80-comes-from-47-1m-donors" target="_hplink">both for and against</a> all 11 state propositions. Eighty-seven percent of the donations come from 47 donors that gave at least $1 million.

• $80,794,705.25

  <strong>$80,794,705.25</strong>: The amount of proposition funding that comes from siblings Molly Munger and Charles T. Munger Jr. Molly Munger spent $44,128,399.25 in support of Prop 38, while Charles T. Munger Jr. spent $36,666,306 to support Prop 32 and oppose Prop 30. FILE - Molly Munger (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

• 4,674,338

  <strong>4,674,338</strong>: The <a href="http://zev.lacounty.gov/news/young-and-in-love-with-voting" target="_hplink">number of the LA County electorate</a>, which is more than the registered voter population in 42 of the 50 states, notes County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky.

• 1.2 Million

  <strong>1.2 million</strong>: The number of LA County residents who <a href="http://zev.lacounty.gov/news/inside-county-government/more-than-one-way-to-cast-a-ballot" target="_hplink">requested absentee voting ballots</a> for this election.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/los-angeles-voting-electi_n_2080927.html

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