UPDATED turnout numbers

At 3 p.m. - with the polls open for another five hours - more than a quarter of LA's registered voters had already cast their vote. 26.84 percent, to be exact. That's up from 23.72 in the 2002 mid-term elections.

UPDATED 4 p.m.: 29.8 percent of voters have filled out their ballots (yes, that includes me). That's up from 2002 but down from 1998. What does any of this mean? Your guess is as good as mine...