Opinion: Election Evening Round-up

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* Follow incoming results at the L.A. County website, and at the California Secretary of State.

* Other blogs to follow as the evening wears on: The San Diego Union-Tribune‘s Chris Reed, the Sacramento Bee‘s Dan Weintraub, the LA Weekly‘s Bill Bradley, Flash Report’s Jon Fleischman, and the Orange County Register‘s Total Buzz. Also, Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Christine is live-blogging from the HQ of Francine Busby, who’s vying to make Duke Cunningham’s seat an upset victory for the Democrats.

* Election-blogger Brad Friedman links to voting-machine trouble in four California counties, including Los Angeles.

* At Blogging.la, Christina Dominguez shows how crooked (literally) local ballots can be.

* BAGnewsNotes offers an intriguing deconstruction of a New York Times words-and-pictures profile of Attorney General candidate Jerry Brown, or what it calls ‘a front page character assassination.’

* Perhaps as an indicator of how boring this election is, even to Democrats, the mostly lefty and California-based Huffington Post has nary a single blog item among its 30 or so today talking about it (at least as far as we could tell by looking at the headlines & excerpts). Then again, the HuffPost’s California-based right-leaning doppleganger, Pajamas Media, doesn’t have much either.

* At Claremont’s Local Liberty blog, Richard Reeb gives his theories for the 30-year trend toward increasing California voter apathy.

* Meanwhile, Franklin Ave. offers perhaps the most appropriate method for choosing between Steve Westly and Phil Angelides.