D-Day for Arnold

Los Angeles' voters will go to the polls today to decide a package of six state budget-related initiatives, along with a slate of local elections that includes a hotly contested race for city attorney.

Despite the long-ranging implications of the election, just 25 percent to 30 percent of registered voters are expected to go the polls.

Even absentee ballots indicate a lack of voter interest in the election. Los Angeles' 4 million voters requested 755,263 absentee ballots but, as of May12, had returned just 195,479.

With Propositions 1A through 1F, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is facing what experts say are long odds in his effort to balance the state budget and reform the budget process during the worst recession in decades.