2:15 p.m.

No major voting problems have been reported across the state today, said Nancy Rodrigues, secretary of the State Board of Elections.

In an afternoon briefing for reporters, Rodrigues said a handful of the state’s more than 2,300 precincts opened 20 to 30 minutes late for reasons including trouble with setting up equipment.

In one precinct in York County, the keys to get in the building didn’t work, so poll workers set up temporarily outside, Rodgrigues said.

In Bristol, a paper-ballot scanner didn’t work because the ballot was dampened with hand-sanitizer gel, she said. The ballot was put in a box to be counted later.

Rodrigues declined to estimate how many people would vote. The turnout was 74 percent of voters in last year’s presidential election and 45 percent in the last race for governor, in 2005.

The sunny, dry weather may be helping today’s turnout, Rodrigues said.

—Rex Springston
(This has been a breaking news update.