VIDEO-Glitch prompts Dems to seek longer voting hours in Conn.

Voters were waiting in line to cast their ballots when the doors opened at a polling place in Takoma Park, Md. H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY

Erin Kelly casts her vote as son Finn, 3, stands by at Takoma Park Middle School in Takoma Park, Md., on Nov. 4, 2014(Photo: H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY)

Democratic Party officials in Connecticut were asking the courts Tuesday to extend voting hours in Hartford because of problems at some polling places that did not have voter registration lists when they opened.

Although the mixup was resolved by midmorning, Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy, who is in a tight race for re-election, sought to make sure that all voters who wanted to cast their ballot could do so.

"If you were unable to vote earlier, your polling location is open and you can vote now," Malloy said on Twitter.

It was the second gubernatorial race in a row in Connecticut that has run into voting glitches, the Hartford Courant notes. In 2010, a state judge agreed to extend the voting hours in Bridgeport after some precincts ran out of ballots.

It wasn't immediately clear whether Tuesday's miscues might affect one item on the ballot this year – whether Connecticut should join 34 others states in allowing absentee balloting or early voting.

In Texas, Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican candidate for governor, tweeted: "Ballot irregularities omit my name from ballot in Bexar County." He calls on voters to call the secretary of state "if you spot other problems." San Antonio, a Democratic stronghold, is in Bexar County.

Abbott's tweet included a photo purporting to show his name missing from the ballot. But a top Bexar County election official, Jacque Callanen, says it appears that the tweeted image had been altered, Mysantonio.com reports.

"I think it's a photoshopped deal, but we are checking," Callanen said. In any case, the lone machine, located at a San Antonio elementary school, was taken out of service to be checked.

Nationwide, voters looking for bad weather as an excuse to avoid voting were out of luck, except in North Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, which were getting hit by heavy rain.

In Kentucky, voters lined up early at schools and community centers to cast ballots, driven in part by a nationally watched Kentucky Senate race. The state has estimated that about 49% of voters statewide and 65% in Louisville would turn out.

In Southern Indiana's Floyd County, the opening of five voting centers was delayed two hours because a technology glitch.

In Virginia, the Department of Elections says 32 voting machines at 25 precincts in Virginia Beach showed signs of irregularities and were pulled from service. The machines were knocked out of calibration while being transported to the polling sites, spokesman Cameron Sasnett told WVEC-TV.

In Atlanta, some voters groused at having to pay to leave the parking lot next to the Georgia Tech's student center polling site, despite signs announcing free parking,The Atlanta Journal-Constitutionreports.

In one precinct in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, two of the four computers weren't working properly, prompting delays and causing some would-be voters to leave, the newspaper reports.

"It's another Fulton County mishap," said state Rep. Edward Lindsey, R-Atlanta. "Mistakes can happen."

In Boulder, Colo., the counting of mailed ballots will continue in Boulder County after a district court judge dismissed a legal challenge by Colorado Republicans.

The lawsuit filed on Monday alleged that County Clerk Hillary Hall had violated the law by not allowing Republican poll watchers in the key Democratic stronghold enough time to challenge or verify voter signatures on disputed ballots, The Daily Camera reports.

Hall told the newspaper that the challenge was from people who don't like mail ballots.

Contributing: Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, Louisville

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