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Arizona's presidential primary election held Tuesday amid coronavirus outbreak

Here are the latest updates regarding Arizona's Democratic primary election. Stay tuned to 12 News for the results.

PHOENIX — Here are the updated number of coronavirus cases in Arizona. 

Here is an ongoing list of cancellations due to the coronavirus.

Democrats across Arizona will cautiously gather at polling locations across the state on Tuesday, sanitizer in hand, to vote for their preferred candidate in the state's presidential primary election. 

The ballot will be full of recognizable names of candidates who have long since dropped out of the race, but only three remain: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard. 

The long road to Tuesday, just eight months out from the presidential election, has essentially boiled down to two candidates: Biden and Sanders. 

Biden and Sanders faced off on Sunday, in one last televised debate before the primary election. 

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The debate was originally set to be held in Phoenix, but was changed to Washington, D.C. without an audience due to the spread of the coronavirus. 

But voters across Arizona will continue to feel the deadly virus' influence on Tuesday. 

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said counties throughout the state will allow curbside voting for those who need it. 

Facilities will be fully cleaned and disinfected where voting takes place. And staff will advise people to avoid crowds on Election Day unless they are voting.  

There will be 151 open polling locations for voters. Registered Democrats can vote at any polling location. 

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Despite the obstacles, Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes told 12 News that voting got off mostly on the right hand Tuesday -- with just a few hiccups. 

One location did not open on time because a door was locked and six voters in the Gilbert area had to be redirected. 

Another location had a printer issue but Fontes said since ballots are pre-printed, it was not a huge deal. 

There were about 3,500 voters checked in in the first hour. Fontes said that number is unpredictable with the public health crisis and that it was too early to tell if it is a big or small number. 

There are health protocols in place at the polls, including making sure line management clerks are keeping voters at least an arm’s distance away from one another while waiting to check in. 

All equipment is getting wiped down completely with appropriate sanitary equipment once every half hour and they are wiping down pens and other tools voters are using. 

Fontes said 65% of poll workers are over 60 years old, "so that’s a concern, but everyone of us is a vector for transmission so we all have to be careful, continue to wash our hands and maintain appropriate distances."

So far, more than a quarter of a million ballots have come in and have been tabulated, about 93,000 more than the total number of Democrats who voted in 2016.

The polls are expected to close at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Anyone who is in line by 7 p.m. will be allowed to cast their ballot. All the early ballots have already been tabulated, Fontes said. 

The earliest results should be reported by state election officials by 8 p.m. 

This is a developing story. Stay tuned to 12 News for the latest. 

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