“On the Republican side, there’s a lot of contested races, but there’s not on the Democratic side and I don’t know if that means the Democratic turnout will be lower,” Hansen said. “Also, the (Flagstaff City Council) didn’t have to have a primary and that’s typically a real driver in getting people out.”

The primary should be a good warm-up for the general election this November, which she expects to draw a lot more voters thanks to the high-profile national races.

“It helps to work an election, especially a slower one, before we throw you into the fire to work that presidential election,” Hansen said. “I’m expecting the turnout to be comparable to 2008, which was the last time we had an open presidential race. Then, we had an almost 79 percent turnout.”

Hansen said her office will add poll workers in November because of the anticipated high voter turnout. Coconino County has already set a record this year for the most registered voters in county history with 72,709.

“The November election, I just get so proud of the country,” she said. “When you think about it, all over the United States, you have thousands of essentially volunteers making sure our democracy works by being election workers.”