Kansas' first caucuses in 20 years take place this week, with Tuesday's Democrat caucus just hours away.

The event is prompting a flurry of activity. Phones at Sedgwick County's Democratic headquarters are ringing like crazy. The goal here is to quell any confusion.

"Today is pretty much all about the voters. We're here answering the phones and assisting people with whatever questions or concerns they have about the caucus," says Sedgwick County Democratic Party Executive Director Jason Diltz.

Sondra Luke is one of 70 volunteers handling that charge.

"I saw it on CNN when they had the caucus in Las Vegas. I just thought it looked like fun and I wanted to be part of it. It's part of history."

As you know a regular primary is usually held in Kansas, so since this is the first caucus here in 20 years even the volunteers themselves had to be trained for the event.

A huge number of democrats are expected to take part in this caucus learning process.

State-wide, 15,000 voters are expected. Here in Sedgwick County up to 400 people could show up at each of the six caucus sites.
Many voters are still uncertain about what to expect.

The caucus has two rounds--voters go to the corner of the candidate they support and are counted--then people with each campaign try to convince others to come to their side.

"We encourage electioneering ad campaigning at the caucus. You can wear your campaign t-shirts and can pass out signs and any information about the candidates," says Diltz.

Then everyone with each candidate is counted a second time and that's the final vote.

Voter must be in line by 7pm to caucus. The whole process will last around an hour.

To find out where to go for both Tuesday's caucus and Saturday's GOP caucus, you can click the web links below.