The Iowa Caucuses are finally here and we’ll know tonight whether Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley or Vivek Ramaswamy the first state’s 40 delegates needed to win the Republican presidential primary.

So when do the festivities start and what happens when they do?

Here’s what the Daily Mail reports:

The Iowa Republican caucus will begin at 7pm local time (8pm ET). Attendees must be at their chosen local precinct by then to listen to speeches before casting their ballots.

They will use secret paper ballots to write down their choice.

Some may even raise their hands to show their support or stand in an area denoting who they have picked.

Volunteers, or caucus captains, will enter the count into an online system, and the final tallies will be published on an Iowa Republican Party website.

The Republicans – like the Democrats – are using an app to report results, but (Iowa’s Republican Party Chairman Jeff Kauffman) assured reporters Saturday at the Iowa GOP’s Des Moines headquarters that they had developed their own app and already successfully used it for two cycles.

Results from the smaller precincts will be available after around 30 minutes, while the larger counts could take hours.

We could know the winner on Monday night, especially if Trump is ahead by an insurmountable margin.

It could be a very long evening if there are issues or it’s a close contest, and there is a history in Iowa of delayed (or wrong) results.

Let’s hope this reporting app that the Republican Party uses works like it has in the last two election cycles. We will be reporting the results as soon as we get them so check back tonight. We’ll have an election thread up as we normally do so you guys can chit chat about it.