Report from Avondale Tolleson Arizona

Historically long lines. As of 10 AM over 400 votes cast (typically this runs about 120 or so). Mix of crowd, heavy under 30. Only Bernie Signs. Polling Marshall reported people waiting before polls opened to vote which is unusual. Huge Latino crowd, many who had not voted in some time.

Based on demographics of the crowd it did not look like a huge turnout for R's, but this is a heavy D area.

Knowing the way these polls go over the years, there are going to be very long lines tonight after 5 PM and I seriously doubt the polls will close on time. In large turnout years, they mark the last person in line and in some years it hasn't been until 8:30/9:00 PM before the last vote is cast. This is going to be one of those years.

We use paper ballots where you connect a line with a marker to indicate your vote. The ballot is then scanned into a machine and tallied electronically. It has been this way for over a decade and there is no real room for voter fraud with this type of scanned ballot. Plenty of effort to suppress the vote already via voter ID laws that were passed years ago, but every single voter in line came armed and prepared with ID. It does not have to be a driver's licence, it can be an electric bill, military id, library card, anything that has a home address and name on it.

Since AZ has closed primaries, you are looked up electronically and your registration is verified. If there IS a problem which I have witnessed in the past, you can vote provisional. I did not see anything like that today.

Both campaigns had people there monitoring vote tallies and making sure that all is well. It was while I was there.

If I had to guess based on just profiling:

Over 50: 30%
Under 35: 60%

Latino: 65%
Black: 10%
White: 15%
Other: 10%

Although this is tough to tell:

Republicans: 20%
Democrats: 80%