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Vegas Residents Report Caucus Chaos

While the nation moves on to the next set of primaries, Nevada party officials are recovering from the whirlwind weekend of caucuses.

Not everything went according to plan and party leaders are trying to figure out why. There were long lines, mixed up precincts, too few ballots and too many cooks in the kitchen.

More than 150,000 Nevadans came out to caucus on Saturday. Complaints piled up and now both parties say they did not really think that many people were going to show up.

It was clear from the start that both parties had people in place to help, but many locations were swarmed with higher numbers than anticipated. That left some people confused and in the wrong precinct altogether.

Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid says the parties tried hard but that effort wasn't enough for caucusgoer Susan Schwartz. She was told to beat it.

"One of the precinct captains actually told me to leave because I wasn't in her precinct and she didn't want to help me," she said.

"You know, it easy to plan for what you anticipate. But when something unanticipated occurs, it's more difficult," said Reid.

A spokesperson with the Republican Party said he wants every complaint to be investigated. He also said high turnout made things confusing.

The Democratic Party told us this weekend they needed to have more interpreters there for Spanish and other languages.

This doesn't mean that the whole event was a failure. Far from it. Thousands of voters came out who might not otherwise have been interested.

And those controversial at-large sites at the casinos did very well, pulling in hundreds of people up and down the strip.

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