Updated 10:08 (153 of 352 precincts partially reporting; 198 completely reporting)

Frank Antenori: 13,099 (20.9 percent)
Jesse Kelly: 23,434 (37.4 percent)
Martha McSally: 15,299 (24.4 percent)
Dave Sitton: 10,531 (16.8 percent)

From the Martha McSally campaign:

Sixty-eight days ago, I decided to run for Congress to change the country, and although we did not come out on top tonight, our campaign made a significant statement. I am humbled by the process, and support the nominee in the upcoming Special Election in June. I also look forward to beginning my campaign in the newly drawn 2nd District.

From Jim Nintzel, at the Jesse Kelly gathering tonight at the Viscount Suite Hotel:

After the early results came in—showing that he had a commanding lead—Jesse Kelly declined to declare victory, but said he was "humbled" by the show of support.

"The general starts tonight," he said.

Kelly's gathering was smaller than the party he had on the evening of the GOP primary election in 2010, when he beat former state lawmaker Jonathan Paton. He would go on to lose a close race to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the general election.

Keep watching this page for Congressional District 8 special primary-election results.

Secretary of State Ken Bennett's office reports that the first results—mostly from early-voter and mail-in ballots—will be published around 8 p.m.

Word around town is that Election Day turnout has been fairly light. That means the early-voter/mail-in count may constitute the bulk of the results. In other words, barring a surprisingly close race, we will know the GOP nominee around 8 p.m.

Whether it's a blowout or it's close, keep your eye here for results, reaction and photos.

Thanks to Rolling Stone (by way of MTV) and technology blog Ars Technica, it's been found that the coolest damn part of Coachella's first weekend was not as much a hologram as it was a modernized 19th century magic trick — one made possible by the same digital arts company that brought you such films as "TRON: Legacy" and "X-Men: First Class."

From Rolling Stone:

"We worked with Dr. Dre on this and it was Dre's vision to bring this back to life," Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, told MTV. "It was his idea from the very beginning and we worked with him and his camp to utilize the technology to make it come to life." MTV reports that the Shakur hologram was created by the Hollywood special effects studio Digital Domain, who have previously worked on films such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, TRON: Legacy and X-Men: First Class. After months of planning, the studio created the hologram in nearly four months.

From Ars Technica:

So here’s how it works: the audience needs to be able to see into the main room, but not into an adjacent hidden room. In the case of the Tupac "hologram," that’s the main stage where a real-life Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre were sharing the limelight. However, hidden on stage is a piece of glass, where the images can be reflected from and pushed into a target area that makes it seem like a single room. But off to the side, behind the glass, there’s a hidden room that has the original object being projected.

These days, AV Concepts, the San Diego-based company behind the Tupac performance, uses a proprietary Mylar foil, known as Musion Eyeliner, rather than glass. The company said in a press release on Monday that its on-site server "delivered uncompressed media for 3 stacked 1920 x 1080 images, delivering 54,000 lumens of incredibly clear projected imagery."

As part of the Sonoran Science Academy, Team CRUSH 1011 builds award-winning robots, this year building a basketball-playing machine using vision-tracking cameras and other things I don't understand. On April 7, the team won the second-highest award at the Las Vegas regional, allowing them to compete at the national competition later this month. However, there's a catch, since the team only has $5000 left in their budget and getting a team of high schoolers to St. Louis will cost around $20,000 which they need pronto.

The team is looking for sponsors, donations, etc., so if you can help out, email Fiona Hanlan (who has far more drive than I did as a high schooler for sure) at [email protected]. I'm sure she'd appreciate any help anyone could provide, even if the advancement of robotic technology will certainly lead to our future enslavement or doom.

For more information on the team and their activities, visit their website.

There's been a lot of great concert news here in Tucson lately, but I'm probably as excited for the Gillian Welch show coming to the Fox Theatre on June 1st as any show I can remember. Maybe the Freestyle Explosion, but that's about it. However, Gillian Welch and her sidekick David Rawlings might be two of the most talented Americana performers alive and they haven't played Tucson terribly often (they played an auditorium show at the U of A in 1999?). Listen to her records on Spotify or something. If alt-country (or whatever they call it these days) is your thing at all, you'll want to cough up the $25 or $32.50 for a ticket to this concert.

Tickets go sale Friday to the general public, although there's a presale on Thursday if you use the password "REESE" on the Fox Theatre's website.

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Garbage at the Rialto Theatre, Apr. 16, 2012

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90's alt-rock stars Garbage stopped by the Rialto Theatre last night as part of their reunion tour.

• Jim Nintzel

Voters are headed to the polls today to decide which GOP candidate is going to take on Democrat Ron Barber in the June 12 special election to finish the rest of Gabrielle Giffords’ congressional term.

Yesterday, we saw the release of a general election poll that showed Republican Jesse Kelly—the GOP nominee in 2010 who narrowly lost to Giffords—beating Barber by 4 percentage points. The match-up had Kelly at 49 percent, while Barber was at 45 percent.

The survey also showed that Barber—a longtime aide to Giffords who was wounded in the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting rampage that left six dead and 13 wounded, including Giffords—was 4 percentage points ahead of sports broadcaster Dave Sitton, 6 percentage points ahead of state Sen. Frank Antenori and tied with former Air Force fighter pilot Martha McSally.

The poll, conducted by National Research Inc, had a small sample size—300 “likely voters”—so it had a margin of error of 5.7 percentage points. That means that nearly all the match-ups of the candidates fell within the margin of error.

Kelly spokesman John Ellinwood said the campaign did not commission the poll, but added that it showed "Jesse's ideas and proposals to lower taxes, grow the economy and lower gas prices have been received well by the voters."

Meanwhile, Jessica Schultz of the Barber campaign told The Range yesterday via email: “No matter who emerges from tomorrow's primary, Ron is going to continue to run a strong campaign to support Southern Arizona's middle class families, defend Social Security and Medicare, and ensure that our veterans get the benefits they've earned.”

So how legit is the poll? The pollster, National Research Inc., was last seen in CD8 polling Republicans before the 2010 primary on behalf of Conservatives for Congress, a political operation that ran ads hammering Republican Jonathan Paton in the 2010 GOP primary that Kelly won.

That survey, taken around the time that early voting started in the primary, showed that Kelly had the support 36 percent of the voters, while Paton (a former state lawmaker who is now running for Congress in the new Congressional District 1) had the support of just 17 percent—a 19-point lead.

On election day, Kelly beat Paton by 6 percentage points, getting 48 percent of the vote to Paton’s 42 percent.

So in that case, either the poll was way off and tilted in Kelly’s direction or the numbers moved a lot during the campaign.

Report: Every Potential 2040 President Already Unelectable Due To Facebook

The Onion, America's Finest "News" Source, has exposed a fundamental problem that threatens to crush Democracy as we know it: That every potential 2040 President is already unelectable thanks to Facebook.

If you ignore the other reasons I'm generally unelectable (being more "cute-ish" than "ruggedly handsome," a tendency to put my foot in my mouth, an ability to make people hate me despite/because of my politeness) there's a good chance that I, like so many other young Americans, have screwed myself out of the Presidency thanks to Facebook comments, photos and links that may only be funny to me.

Also, if nothing else, watch the video for The Onion's take on grandiose, war-like Presidential race graphics.