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Update: Westside precinct has been moved to William Fleming High School

Sunday's windstorms knocked power out to a handful of polling places in the Roanoke Valley, sending election officials scrambling to find alternate voting locations for today's presidential primaries.

Officials said Monday that as many as nine polling places in the region could be affected.

In Roanoke, the outages affected four voting locations:

• Voters who vote at Highland Park Learning Center will vote at Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Ave.
• Voters who vote at Ruffner Middle School will vote at William Fleming High School, 3649 Ferncliff Ave. N.W.
• Voters who vote at Fairview Elementary School will vote at Melrose Branch Library, 2607 Salem Turnpike N.W.
• Voters who vote at Raleigh Court Elementary School will vote at Patrick Henry High School, 2102 Grandin Road S.W.

Roanoke County also had to move three polling places:

• Voters who vote at Mason's Cove Elementary School will vote at the Masons Cove Fire Station, 3810 Bradshaw Road in Salem.
• Voters who vote at Mountain Pass Baptist Church in Catawba also will vote at the Masons Cove Fire Station.
• Voters who vote at the Vinton Baptist Church will vote in a church-owned building adjacent to the church at 200 S. Maple Ave.

In Botetourt County, Registrar Phyllis Dierschow said Monday afternoon that two polling place were without power. She said she would wait until early this morning to see whether the electricity was back. If there is no power, Dierschow said the two polling places would be moved.

• Voters who vote at the Glen Wilton Volunteer Fire Department in Oriskany would vote at Eagle Rock Elementary School, 145 Eagles Nest Drive.
• Voters who vote at Rainbow Forest Baptist Church in Blue Ridge would vote at the Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire Department.

Appalachian Power Co. spokesman Todd Burns said late Monday afternoon that it was unlikely that power would be restored overnight to the polling places serviced by the company.

"It's the sheer magnitude of the number of outages we've experienced in the last 24 hours," he said.

Statewide, about 26 polling places were affected by power outages as of late Monday, down from 50 earlier that morning, said Susan Pollard, a spokeswoman for the State Board of Elections. Voting officials worked with utility companies through the day to bring electricity back to polling places across Virginia, she said.

Power was out in several parts of the state Monday following the storms.

Moving a polling place in Roanoke normally requires approval from the U.S. Department of Justice, but city Registrar Beryl Brooks said she would seek permission from Washington, D.C., after the election. "We proceed as if given permission, but we have to go through the process," she said.

She also asked voters for their patience because some of the new locations would not receive voting machines until this morning.

Botetourt and Roanoke counties have received exemptions from the federal government and do not need to clear polling place changes with the Department of Justice, local officials said.