“You can take pictures, but you can’t talk on them,” Coakley said in Henrico.

Cortés said voting officials in Fairfax County and other localities reported instances of people who had registered to vote not being in poll books. He said the same thing happened, as it often does, with voters registered through the Department of Motor Vehicles, where the state has a process for auditing registration applications to determine whether to count provisional ballots.

“If you’re not showing up in the poll book, you must be offered a provisional ballot,” he said, “so please don’t leave without voting.”

Cortés said some technical problems had occurred with scanning and touch-screen machines, but voting was able to continue because contingency plans were in place.

At Pinchbeck Elementary School in Henrico, the machine for feeding in ballots to be scanned jammed. The ballots were stored in a separate box until the scanner could be repaired or replaced, which Coakley said didn’t take long.

“We’re not as quick as 911 Fire, but we pride ourselves on getting out to polling places as quickly as we can and getting issues resolved,” he said.