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Voting got off to a glitchy start in Maricopa County on Tuesday morning because of widespread issues with the machines that count voters' ballots.
All of the county's 223 voting locations opened on time, but an hour into the election, voters and poll workers at some sites started reporting issues with tabulators.
Officials confirmed those problems during an impromptu Tuesday morning news conference.
"After people have voted (their ballot), they try to run them through the tabulator, and they're not going through," Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates said.
Voters have the option of placing their ballot in a secure box to be tabulated later, going to another location to vote, or returning later in the day to the same location in hopes the problem will be fixed.