Story highlights Reports are emerging from Nevada of record high turnout overwhelming the state's primitive Republican caucuses on Tuesday evening.

Jeremy Hughes, a Nevada strategist for Marco Rubio, said he was hearing about extensive problems at caucus sites across the state.

Washington (CNN) Local media, social media and sources on the ground in Nevada are reporting ballot shortages and identifications going unchecked at Tuesday's Republican caucuses.

Jeremy Hughes, a Nevada strategist for Marco Rubio, said he was hearing about extensive problems at caucus sites across the state.

At his own caucus site in Clark County, he said volunteers were checking in voters to caucus without checking their IDs, including one member of the Rubio team. Hughes said he reported the violations to Sue Lowden, the former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party who happened to be at that caucus site, and she reprimanded the woman.

"We assume that situation was resolved," said Hughes, who said he was unable to find a site manager to report the violations to.

"Trying to to catch all the fraud that's going on here would like trying to plug all the holes in the Titanic," Hughes said in a telephone interview as he left his caucus site. "You fix one and another one bursts."

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