Mexican citizens in the U.S. stand in winding lines in Seattle to vote in Mexico’s presidential election

A voter said they saw an 83-year-old woman wait six hours in the rain to vote.

SEATTLE — Thousands stood for hours in the rain outside Capitol Hill’s Consulate of Mexico Sunday to vote in person in Mexico’s historic presidential election.

Preliminary results indicate voters are likely to make history by electing Mexico’s first female president. Claudia Sheinbaum of the left-wing Morena party grabbed an early lead Sunday evening.

“Either way, its gonna be a woman,” said Juan Belasco, a Vancouver B.C. man who traveled to Seattle to vote.

Those casting ballots in Seattle made history pf another kind. For the first time,

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