Forgotten password, planned electrical outage, wrong pens. Oops. All among CT election day glitches | 4 Nov 2025 | As thousands of Connecticut residents cast their ballots in local elections Tuesday, they were greeted by the state’s new tabulator machines. While the new machines work like the old, officials said, some voters were confused, causing some delays and concern. “One issue we saw this morning, an election worker set a very secure password but forgot what it was so we had to reset the system,” Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas said. In another case, a registrar “got a notification that Eversource was performing a planned outage so we had to get on the phone and let them know, ‘hey, today is Election Day so this might not be the best day for that.'” One glitch impacted the new tabulators, she said, likely due to the writing implements that were used to fill out ballots. Some polling places, Thomas said, “aren’t using the recommended pen for filling out the ballots, so when it scans through the tabulators, it’s causing dirt on the head but luckily we have almost 40 technicians from the tabulator company here in Connecticut today deployed around the state so they were able to go…”