Florida votes in primary featuring Rubio, Wasserman-Schultz

(AP) — Florida voters cast ballots in a primary Tuesday featuring two politicians hoping to hold onto their seats after this year's bruising presidential contest, Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

[...] few people were casting ballots in the late morning at Mainlands, a Pinellas Park retirement community where weekly bingo is a highlight at centers surrounded by white stucco homes and a golf course.

Rubio is seeking to secure the Republican nomination for a second term, despite declaring during his failed presidential campaign that he would not run again for Senate.

[...] Wasserman Schultz, the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, was defending her seat against Tim Canova, a Bernie Sanders-backed law professor, in a primary colored by leaked e-mails revealing that DNC officials had worked against Sanders to favor Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.

Florida had to rip up and redraw its congressional maps after they were found to violate the state constitution's provision requiring compact districts that don't favor incumbents or political parties.

The minor Election Day problems he cited include polling places that failed to open right on time in Lee County and Flagler County; he said firefighters at the station across the street from the Flagler precinct helped a poll worker open that site.