The Triangular Church of Religious Science is just one of South Los Angeles's polling locations.  But with 888 registered voters at this location, poll workers estimated they would only see between 30 and 40 of them for today's municipal elections.   

These numbers are no surprise to the five poll workers.  The general consensus among them was that voters really don't care about Tuesday's elections because they don't know the candidates or their policies and they don't understand the local ballot measures.  

"People only care about the mayor and other than that, people don't know what other people do," said Eloise Goodloe, who has been an inspector at the polls for two years.

Goodloe said if she was not an inspector she would not be at the polls today because she really doesn't care about today's elections.   

"There is nothing on the ballot that interests me, so why should I bother?" Goodloe said.  

Although Goodloe is concerned about crime in Los Angeles and would like to see an increase in police officers, she doesn't know if her concern resides anywhere on the ballot. 

The only way for the city to get more people to vote is to better educate them so they know who and what is addressing their concerns, Goodloe said. 

Still, she said the main concerns of voters today are regarding health care, social security and taxes, and these issues are not on these ballots.

"The local government can only do so much so people don't care about these elections because they can't do as much," said Samuel Archila, a student helping out at the polls for the first time.  "That is why people vote in the presidential elections."

Cheryl Palmer, who has worked at the polls for 10 years, recalls how different the turnout was for the 2008 presidential elections.  

Before the polls at the church opened there was a line, Palmer said. "I actually got to test my skills and work." 

  

But Tuesday is much different and the workers plan on hanging out most of the day and passing the time with continued discussions about food, music and USC students on bikes swarming Jefferson Boulevard.