Voters throughout the region have been heading to the polls all day, with a few hours to go before results start to come in.

It was fairly quiet mid-morning at the Springfield Fire Department headquarters, a polling place in the city’s first ward. Poll worker Jacquelyn Kinney says by 10:30 a.m., just over 100 people had voted.

“It’s kind of slow, picking up, but kind of slow. It’s at a slow pace, but we’re getting them in constantly,” says Kinney.

One issue that may drive turnout in Springfield is the ballot referendum on casinos. The outcome of the vote will determine whether a proposed casino in the city’s South End will be built. At a polling place in that neighborhood, Stanley Edwards stood with a pro-casino “Vote No” sign. He says that brought this response from a fellow voter:

“One guy come by, and he wrote ‘yes’ here,” says Edwards, pointing to the “no” on his sign. “We said, ‘hey, thanks for coming out anyways, pal.”

Polling places in both Massachusetts and Connecticut are open until 8 p.m. tonight.