and the first voter here was a 94-year-old man who says that he always votes. i asked him how he will vote and he says i ll keep that to myself. so much is riding on this this day. and here at this polling station there are fans and bottles of water, it will go into the 90s farenheit, 35 centigrade here, but in the south of spanl, it will spain, 104 degrees farenheit. so the election officials are watching to see how the first ever election in the peak of the summer tourist season will affect turnout in terms of did people vote or not or did they go on vacation. there is a record number of absentee ballots, almost twice as many as the previous high, and most of those, more than 2 .4 million, were submitted. and those will be counted along with the regular ballots later this day. certainly adds to the complexity of the vote. and i m glad you mentioned the weather because if you are standing in line outside, that