Barnstable's Nov. 7 election features races for Town Council and Housing Authority. Polls are open until 8 p.m. What to know.

Barnstable town officials notified the elections division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth about a vault containing ballots that the town clerk was unable to open this morning.

At 4:15 a.m. on Tuesday the Town Clerk’s office in Barnstable said they were unable to open the vault that houses about 4,000 mail-in election ballots ahead of primary elections, which were set ...