Polls are open in Arizona until 7 p.m. Any voter who is in line by then will be able to cast their ballot.
Maricopa County voters were turning out in the tens of thousands during the first half of Election Day, Nov. 5.
Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates said at a press conference that, as of 11 a.m., more than 93,000 voters had checked in at the county’s 246 polling locations.
Gates said all of the polling locations opened on time at 6 a.m. and no voting centers have needed to shut down. He said that while a handful of locations had 30-minute wait times, the average wait time was two minutes.
The county is home to nearly 2.6 million registered voters, and the elections department said it had already received nearly 1.6 million early ballots by Nov. 4.
Kolby Peoples of Phoenix came to Burton Barr Central Library in downtown Phoenix as polls opened to cast his ballot in his third election.
“Voting was super simple. It felt completely legitimate,” he told The Copper Courier. “I felt like my vote’s going to count. I felt like everybody’s vote that goes into this building at the very least is going to count, legally, effectively, officially.”
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, who was welcoming voters outside of Burton Barr, encouraged anyone who hasn’t voted yet to do so as soon as they can.
“We hope we’ll have incredibly high turnout, and I hope when all is said and done, we can say we were part of making incredible American history,” she said.
Polls are open in Arizona until 7 p.m. Any voter who is in line by then will be able to cast their ballot.
Early ballots can also be dropped off at polling locations or drop boxes through 7 p.m.
Maricopa County voters can check wait times at polling locations near them on the county’s website.
READ MORE: Your guide to voting on Election Day in Arizona
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