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Biometric voter verification kits did not work in a number of polling stations visited by the BBC in Uganda.
Election Commission spokesperson Paul Bukenya said he had received reports that some of the kits had malfunctioned.
Electronic devices are used to capture and verify voter details before they can receive ballots.
Long queues were spotted at most of the polling stations visited by the BBC, although there were delays in delivering voting materials to some stations.
In the municipality of Nansana, the voting materials did not arrive until 10:00 am local time (07:00 GMT). Some voters had started to grow impatient and hurl insults at election officials.
In the town of Masaka, south of Kampala, reports indicate that voting materials were delivered around 7:30 a.m.
Voting was scheduled to begin at 7:00 a.m. across the country.
There is only an ordinary police presence and no heavy military deployment so far in the places visited by the BBC,
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