Back that Mass. Up: Polling site woes

🗳 Voting machines went down yesterday afternoon around Boston, per election monitors Lawyers for Civil Rights.

• Other precincts ran out of ballots, prompting city officials to rush out ballots shortly before polls closed.

📉 Bedford-based iRobot is cutting 105 workers, or 16% of its global workforce, as part of an "operational restructuring plan." (BBJ)

Somerset House Rep. Patricia Haddad, a former top leader on Beacon Hill, lost her seat to Republican Justin Thurber yesterday. (AP)