UCSD students expected more from San Diego County’s Registrar of Voters. Marred by a string of administrative and coordination disappointments, the office’s decisions indirectly disenfranchised an indeterminable number of student voters this Election Day.

The registrar’s failure to send out registration confirmations, absentee ballots and voter guides — including the location of polling sites — to a large portion of newly registered UCSD voters led to mass confusion, a shortage of provisional ballots and was at least partly responsible for the four-hour wait at the polls.

Despite a successful drive by A.S. representatives that netted thousands of new voters, the registrar planned for just two campus polling locations, with five stations each. Though lines started to form early in the day, it took voting administrators until 8 p.m. — the closing time for polls — to decide to introduce an additional poll worker, when they officially deputized Revelle College Senior Senator Ted McCombs to help.

Poll workers at Price Center were unprepared for the larger-than-expected turnout, at one point offering students Vietnamese and Spanish ballots when English-language ballots ran out.

It’s truly unfortunate that the county registrar did not make enthusiastic college voters — traditionally the least electorally active age group — a priority on Nov. 2.