Last: No problem reported in Utah polling stations

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The latest on a primary election in Utah (all local):

2:25 p.m.

According to the Utah Elections Bureau, no problems were reported in the state's polling stations during Tuesday's primary elections.

The state's chief election officer, Justin Lee, said that 301,000 voters in Utah have already voted by mail or by advance before Tuesday. The number of votes cast on Tuesday will not be available until the polls close at 8 pm

Advance voting should represent the majority of the votes cast in the primary.

The turnout is likely to be high considering the state's primary Republican state for the Senate featuring former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and state representative Mike Kennedy.

Lee said that it is not clear how many electors are eligible to vote on Tuesday because there are no races in every party in every district of the state .

The last state-wide Republican primary race was for the re-election of Governor Gary Herbert in 2016. Lee said that about 247,000 people voted this year.

___

1:10 p.m.

In rural, central Utah, Jesse Sloan, 29, a Republican, supports Mike Kennedy for the US Senate and businessman Chris Herrod for Rep. John Curtis.

The resident of the award says former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has warped on key issues and is not in keeping with the "Utah values" as a commitment to the rights of guns fire and opposition to abortion.

Sloan says that Curtis went wrong on gun issues in the past and did not work hard enough to prevent a $ 1.3 billion spending bill from becoming a law this year. Sloan says he's been working with Herrod's campaign as a county coordinator last year, when the two men previously clashed, but were not involved this year.

Sloan is a plumbing contractor.

He is worried that voters have been exhausted by politics and do not pay enough attention to this year 's elections.

___

11:40

Mitt Romney stops in Utah restaurants and poses for photos with voters while he is participating in a GOP primary election Tuesday for the Senate seat of Utah.

The former Republican presidential candidate began his morning in a northern Utah restaurant where he sat at a large breakfast of pancakes and eggs with his wife Ann and grandchildren. children and checked a collector car parked outside.

He planned to make another stop on Tuesday afternoon at a barbecue restaurant south of Salt Lake City.

His opponent Mike Kennedy voted Tuesday morning in the city of Alpine and spent time phoning voters.

Her spokeswoman, Cindie Quintana, says that Kennedy could spend the afternoon knocking on doors trying to reach as many people as possible.

He faces a tough battle to defeat Romney who is considered a beloved foster son.

___

10:35

Software engineer Alan Wessman says he's refusing to vote for any Republican candidate who is enthusiastic about President Donald Trump.

The self-described moderate calls the president corrupt, thin and incompetent.

For this reason, he will vote for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the Sen. Senate Sen. Sen. Orrin Hatch.

Romney had already been severely critical of Trump but softened his tone in recent months. Wessman says he's "turned to porridge," but was even tougher on Trump than state representative Mike Kennedy.

The 43-year-old Spanish Fork resident also said he would vote for outgoing representative John Curtis rather than for businessman Chris Herrod. Herrod is compared to a conservative pro-Trump.

Still, Wessman says he can not vote for Republicans in November. He says the GOP has abandoned its principles and has been "interfered" with Trump.

___

7:30

Polls opened in Utah as Republicans decide on a primary for Utah 's Senate between former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the US' s representative. State Mike Kennedy.

Romney is looking to revive his political career while deflecting attacks on his critics once on President Donald Trump. The former GOP presidential candidate says his political influence would help Utah to exceed its weight in Washington, D.C.

Kennedy says that he is the true conservative of the country who would work better with Trump.

Both were forced into a run-off primary since neither one nor the other won 60 percent of the delegates' votes to secure the nomination in April.

The winner will be the big favorite in the general election against Salt Lake County Council Democrat, Jenny Wilson.

___

This story has been corrected to show that the winner will face Democrat Jenny Wilson in November.