Machines plugged into a non-working outlet went down when their batteries failed as well.*

The problem, school officials said later, was a bank of electrical outlets needed to be turned on with a switch. The voting machines were operating on battery power, and the machines went down as the batteries ran down.

A similar problem occurred in a handful of other Jackson precincts, with power strips not being turned on, said Hinds County Elections Commissioner Marilyn Avery." It was not anything of any magnitude," she said.