Voting machines down in New Jersey's Mercer County

( Post Millennial )

As voters across Mercer County, New Jersey head to the polls to cast their ballots on Tuesday, officials have announced that voting machines had gone down to due to a "county-wide system outage."

Authorities informed residents that they could still vote via standard ballot.

"Due to a Mercer County-wide system outage, all voting machines are currently down in each district across the County," the West Windsor Police Department said in a statement."

"Voters can still report to their respective polling locations and vote on a standard ballot and insert their ballot into the emergency slot in the machine."

The County announced via Facebook that "Poll workers will be on hand to walk voters through the process," and that the Board of Elections is "working with Dominion, the machine maker, to resolve the issue."