Tuesday Evening in Apache Junction: Green Party Presidential Candidate Richard Grayson Votes in Arizona Primary at Cactus Canyon Junior High School

With less than an hour before the polls close in today's Arizona presidential preference primary, we went over to Cactus Canyon Junior High as we drove up Southern Avenue from spending time with our mom at the Apache Junction Health Center nursing home.

The nice poll workers there told us that we were the first Green Party voter they'd had all day, so we might have even carried our home precinct, number 40 in Pinal County, with our vote for ourselves.

This Republican voter was one of the few people there. We are hoping to finish at least fifth out of six candidates in today's Green primary and plan to concede early at our campaign headquarters so that our dad, brothers and brother's girlfriend can watch TV.

Tuesday Afternoon in Apache Junction: Election Day Voting at Cactus Canyon Junior High School

Today was Election Day in Apache Junction, so in late afternoon we moseyed over to Cactus Canyon Junior High School


to do our civic duty in our fair city.

One council member was facing a recall election

and three other council seats were also up.

Leading citizens debated the issues outside the polling place.

It was a beautiful afternoon, sunny and about 73 degrees, perfect weather for casting a ballot.

When we gave our yellow voter registration card (we are one of our 5,000 Arizonans who belong to the Green Party and had the honor of being our party's candidate for Congress last November), we got a green ticket

to get our ballot.

We voted to re-elect our incumbent A.J. mayor -- not that we had any choice.

We fed our marked ballot into the machine

and got our "I voted" sticker.

Tonight we'll watch the exciting election returns.