Hundreds of students lined up at campus polling locations on Election Day, most waiting hours to vote and some failing to receive provisional ballots or ballots printed in English.

Muir Commons and Price Center Gallery A, the two campus locations that served as voting places for UCSD students, each included five voting booths, between three and five poll workers, and hundreds of students waiting for up to four hours to cast their votes.

“I’m pretty annoyed that I’ve been waiting for two-and-a-half hours. … I think they could’ve handled the capacity better,” Revelle College freshman Richard Lewis said. “I wish they had more than two places.”

The last of the voters cast their ballots at the Muir Commons site at 12:35 a.m., officially the day after the scheduled Nov. 2 national election.

Precinct inspector John Latham, who directed the Price Center Gallery A site, said that the San Diego County Registrar of Voters did not expect the large number of students based on previous voter turnout rates on campus. He also said that around half of the estimated 800 student votes at Price Center used provisional ballots because many students failed to receive their voter confirmation in the mail.

“The registrar has constraints,” said Latham. “They didn’t expect as many people would show up because of their records.”

Latham also said that at around 7 p.m., the Price Center site ran out of English ballots, and was forced to ask students to use approximately 35 Spanish ballots and 10 Vietnamese ballots, in conjunction with English sample ballots, in order to keep the line moving.

“I am sure we did not run an absolutely perfect poll,” Latham said. “Many had not received anything from the registrar … so it went slowly.”

A.S. Vice President External Rigo Marquez said he found the county registrar and the poll workers at Price Center uncooperative.

“I had a really big problem with the poll workers,” Marquez said. “I was very unhappy with the way they were treating the students.”

Students who were not registered in San Diego County were denied provisional ballots and a poll worker at the Price Center location used profanity while speaking with students who insisted on voting, Marquez said.

Latham said he thought members of Associated Students did not “understand that this was not a party, it was an election.”

A.S. Campus Organizing Director Kevin Mann also said he was upset by the small number of voting polls and booths available to the students, and criticized the registrar for not alleviating the overcrowded polls.

Many voters, like Revelle College freshmen Stephanie Graf and Richard Lewis, did not receive their registration confirmation in the mail, despite having registered well in advance. As a result, these students did not know their assigned poll locations.

Many other students were also given incorrect or conflicting poll site information, Revelle College Senior Senator Ted McCombs said. McCombs, who was deputized by the state around 8 p.m at the Muir Commons location to alleviate the shortage of staff, said he was “really upset” with the voting process at the campus poll sites.

“My impression of the poll workers has been relatively negative in the Price Center,” McCombs said. “I hope that these problems bring awareness to the administration of how much institutional change needs to happen. … We’ve been dealing with a rather unenthusiastic administration.”

In addition, John Muir College sophomore Laurel Monticelli said she never received an absentee ballot she requested be sent to her campus address. She was subsequently told by personnel at the registrar’s office that she could cast a provisional ballot in San Diego though she was registered in Alameda County. However, she was later turned away at the Muir Commons voting poll, Monticelli said.

“We were misled,” Monticelli said. “I was there for 25 minutes, and out of the 10 people that were there, four people had the same problem.”

Students ran into further obstacles when the Muir Commons voting poll ran out of provisional envelopes around 3 p.m. Doug Dutson, a poll worker at the site, said they were still waiting for envelopes more than an hour and a half after they phoned the registrar’s office.

A.S. President Jenn Pae also said she called county offices many times to inform the registrar of the long lines and the lack of provisional envelopes and ballots, but was redirected and put on hold several times.

“There was an extraordinary turnout this time, and a lot of people weren’t registered that voted at [UCSD],” said Lana Witts, a spokesperson for the registrar’s office. “A lot of the kids were voting provisionally.”

Despite the delay, most students stayed in line to cast their vote, and near the end of the evening additional booths were brought to the Price Center location.

“It was kind of annoying, but it was worthwhile,” said Earl Warren College sophomore Neha Rahan. “If you’re an American citizen, it’s important [to vote], because it’s your future.”