Absentee ballots to set record

Absentee balloting, which has played a pivotal role in California politics, is causing headaches again, even before the polls close in Tuesday's historic election. Tony Castro in the Daily News.

A crush of last-minute absentee ballot requests have swamped county elections officials, who warned voters to either return voted ballots today or deliver them to polling places on Election Day if they want their votes to count.

As clerks were trying to send out 13,000 last-minute vote-by- mail requests Thursday, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's Office in Norwalk was also still attempting to process 55,000 remaining voter registrations Thursday.