Get out and vote

For the first time in more than six decades, California voters will go to the polls today in a split primary election that will decide the fate of state and federal legislators and, in Los Angeles County, a closely contested seat on the Board of Supervisors.Daily News.

The split primary comes after state officials decided to move up the presidential primary election to Feb. 5 to try to give California a bigger role in national politics with Super Tuesday voting among a dozen states.

But so many elections this year - a total of three including the November presidential ballot - mean that even though California and county officials are not projecting voter turnout, most believe that without any real contested races it will be less than 20 percent.