May 21 Last Day to Register to Vote in June 5 Primary

May 21 is deadline in Los Angeles County for registering to vote in the upcoming election.

Los Angeles County residents wanting to vote in the June 5 primary must register by May 21. If you’re not sure if you are registered, you can check your status online. This year’s ballot will feature open primaries, in which the top two vote-getters in state or federal races advance to the November election—no matter what party they represent. Here is a list of races on the ballot in La Cañada. Citizens can get a registration form online here and those who are uncertain of whether they are registered or not can check here. For more information, visit the Registrar of Voters website.

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Obama to Dine With George Clooney, Expect Traffic

Traffic could snarl around Los Angeles County Thursday. George Clooney plans to host President Barack Obama for a campaign event at his Studio City home.

Candidates for June 5 Primary Election Finalized

See who’s running for offices representing La Cañada in the June 5 primary election.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported La Cañada's newly-drawn U.S. Congressional district. La Cañada is now part of the 28th congressional district. The incumbent is Adam Schiff. His and the information about his challengers have been added to the story. LCF Patch apologizes for the error.  With the candidates on the June 5 primary election ballot finalized, campaigns and voter registration drives are underway. Recently drawn redistricting maps place La Cañada in the 27th Congressional District and shift the city's assembly district to the 43rd, currently represented by Mike Gatto.  Races for the new districts representing La Cañada include State Senator 25th District, U.S. Representative 28th District, and …

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Republican Candidates to Visit Crescenta Valley Homes

Several candidates will visit La Crescenta and La Canada homes on April 14 and 15.

Liu Faces Gonzales in Upcoming Election

Incumbent Democratic State Senator Carol Liu to run against Republican Gilbert Gonzales, with Gonzales planning to fundraise next week to campaign for the seat

Election Battle Update: Blumenfeld Getting Closer to Broberg

As it stands, candidate Andrew Blumenfeld is 12 votes behind incumbent Jeanne Broberg in the race for a seat on the La Cañada Unified School District's governing board.

Updated: Blumenfeld picked up 21 votes Monday, with Broberg adding 19 to her total count, bringing the difference to 12 votes that separate the two candidates. Monday's added provisional ballots, as tallied by the Los Angeles Conty Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, brings the total voted earned by incumbent Broberg to 1,783 and 1,771 for Blumenfeld. Multari's votes increased from 2,039 to 2,062 and Koeppen upped his vote count  from 944 to 956. The next tally will be Wednesday. Earlier: The ballot counting process continues at 1 p.m. in Norwalk, as La Cañadans eagerly wait to see whether Jeanne Broberg will reclaim her seat on the La Cañada Unified School District's governing board, or whether it will go to challenger Andrew Blumenfeld. At …

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School Board Election: 12 Votes Separate Winners from Losers

Vote-by-mail and provisional ballots are still to be counted in the race for two seats on the La Cañada Unified School District governing board. The first update will be made Friday by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.

The number 12: it's a carton of eggs, four field goals and a jury (sans alternates). And with all 15 precincts reporting in the La Cañada Unified School District's governing board race, it's the number of votes that separate second-place finisher and incumbent Jeanne Broberg from challenger Andrew Blumenfeld.  That number could change in either candidate's favor during the five days of updating election results when officials from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk count vote-by-mail and provisional ballots. Vote-by-mail are self explanatory: folks mailed them in. Provisional mean that a person showed up to the wrong polling place and instead of being shooed away, filled out a provisional ballot, which was not counted …

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Election 2011: In-Person Turnout Slow, Steady

While a good chunk of registered La Cañada Flintridge voters submit mail-in ballots, a steady trickle of people cast ballots in person Tuesday.

With less than two hours to go before polls would close Tuesday, La Cañada residents trickled in to poll locations to cast their vote for two seats on the school district's governing board.  Poll worker Christa Clark perked up whenever another set of feet shuffled through the doors at Lutheran Church in the Foothills. "In general, it's been kind of slow, but we've had a lot of people walk in their mail-in ballot to save the 44 cents,'' she said. None of the voters approached outside the polling places would talk about who they voted for or why. Running in the election for La Cañada Unified School District's governing board are incumbent Jeanne Broberg and challengers Ellen Multari, Andrew Blumenfeld and Ernest Koeppen. Across the street, …

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