While the majority of Californians cast their ballot without any problems on Election Day, a few unlucky voters hit discouraging snags.

The problems ranged from poll worker mistakes to missing voting machines to ID confusion. Like some who had registered to vote through Rock The Vote, LA-based writer Aaron Waltke, 28, had problems casting a ballot on Tuesday.

Both Waltke and his girlfriend had registered to vote through the Rock The Vote site more than a month ago, but they didn’t receive any confirmation by mail. Minutes before California’s voter registration deadline on Oct. 22, Waltke decided to chance it and register a second time through the state’s site.

While he says he didn’t opt for a mail-in ballot, he received one anyway, as well as instructions for how to drop it off at a polling place in Koreatown. Figuring that he could still vote in person if he wanted, Waltke arrived at the station early Tuesday morning to cast his ballot, and was told he couldn’t because he was on the “mail-in” list. If he wanted to cast a vote normally, he’d have to go home, retrieve his mail-in ballot, and then return so that poll workers could destroy it. Waltke opted to fill out a provisional ballot because he was already late for work, but he was disheartened that his vote would be counted almost a month after Election Day.

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