Election Day got off to an interesting start, as power went out at Hopkinton Middle School just before the polls opened at 7 a.m. However, it did not cause a major problem.
According to Town Clerk Connor Degan, his crew was prepared for such a situation, and backup power to the election equipment went on immediately. So, the only issue was a dim Brown Gym.
“[The voting machines] weren’t down,” Degan said. “Nothing went down besides the lights.”
Degan added that residents still should feel comfortable voting at any time. The polls are to remain open until 8 p.m.
“We have backups hard-wired into our systems,” he said. “We are all set in case of this contingency.”
Degan said he was informed by Eversource that the cause of the outage was a blown transformer on Ash Street. An email from Eversource to affected residents estimated power would be restored by 10 a.m.
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