NY voters speak out on a primary election like few others

NEW YORK (AP) — Voters across New York are casting ballots in presidential primaries that could be pivotal for both Republicans and Democrats.

New York is home to both parties' front-runners, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

While registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by 2-to-1 in New York, many voters on both sides of the aisle have something to say about Trump.

James Hammond, a retired government worker and registered Democrat, said he intended his vote for Sanders as a vote against Clinton.

"Come the general election I'll be voting for Trump," Hammond said outside his polling place in the Albany suburb of Bethlehem.

After voting for Sanders in the Albany suburb of Bethlehem, Lyons, 53, said she likes his economic policies.

Drzymala, a computer programmer at the University at Buffalo, is looking for a president who can get the country back on track.

Bob Rogers, a computer programmer, and his wife, Mary Rogers, a homemaker, considered switching their Democratic registration to Republican so they could vote against Donald Trump.

[...] her husband cast his ballot for Sanders, put off by Clinton's paid speeches to big banks — "the money she took from 'Government Sachs,'" he quipped.

The Rogerses said their children, college students in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, are also split between the two Democratic candidates.

Mary Cummings tried to vote for Trump in a Buffalo suburb Tuesday but found out at the polling station that she's registered in the Right to Life Party, not the GOP.

Eager to vote in her first presidential primary, Leah Bartnik drove 70 miles from college in Rochester to get to her precinct in the Buffalo suburb of West Seneca just before polls opened at 6 a.m.