ARDMORE, Okla. -- With only four months until the November elections, politics are on the minds of many Tuesday in Oklahoma. Voters have been going to the polls all day in Oklahoma. Robin Beal was at one of those polling places over the lunch hour.

The prevailing sense seems to be one of excitement. This is the warm-up for a big election year. The face of our nation, the president, will change next year, and people in southern Oklahoma want their voices to be heard, no matter whom their candidates are or what office it is that is being decided.

We hung around the Boy Scout office for awhile on Tuesday, a polling place in north Ardmore off Veterans Boulevard. A slow trickle of people was in and out, just like the early voting we saw on Friday and over the weekend.

But people are excited about going to the polls. They often feel strongly about a couple of races in particular. County sheriff is a big one in these parts. But what if you haven't voted yet, and now you are at home cooking dinner for the kids? You just don't think you have the time to make it before the polls close at seven?

One voter we talked to has a little bit of motivation just for you.

"By the time you've fought with that and argued with that you could have already voted, and that was important to me. I was going to this morning, I thought I forgot, but I ran on my lunch hour to do that. So it takes all of five minutes to do it,” voter Kathleen Thomas said.

So, polls open until seven tonight all across Oklahoma, and unless a candidate is unopposed every county in the state is deciding the sheriff, a single county commissioner place, court clerk, and county clerk. There are a few scattered special votes here and there, like the Healdton 9-1-1 question we have previously told you about.

Tonight should be an exciting one for candidates and voters alike, and we will have the races that matter to you covered.