State and local statutes have thrown up barriers as well. Voter-ID laws—like the ones tested for the first time in Wisconsin and New Hampshire this cycle—have gotten some attention this year after marginalizing voters at the polls. And in Arizona, officials slashed the number of polling locations in the state’s most populous county, leading to hours-long waits in line before thousands were ultimately turned away. As a result, the Democratic National Committee and the two Democratic presidential campaigns are currently suing the state for voter suppression.

In the case of New York, its voter-registration laws received sharp criticism before voting was even underway. The state holds closed primaries, which means only registered Democrats and Republicans can vote and only for their own party. There’s also no early or same-day registration, so voters looking to change parties would have had to do so back in October. Ahead of the contest, Bernie Sanders lamented that some of his core voters wouldn’t be able to cast their ballots—unless they’d been really prepared. “We have a system here in New York where Independents can’t get involved in the Democratic primary,” Sanders said earlier this week, “where young people who have not previously registered and want to register just can’t do it.” It’s not a partisan problem: Two of Republican candidate Donald Trump’s children, notably, couldn’t vote for their father Tuesday because they are registered Independents—not Republicans. (Ivanka Trump, for one, denounced the state’s voting rules as “onerous.”)

New York City officials, meanwhile, seemed to focus mostly on administrative complaints Tuesday as they rushed to echo their constituents’ concerns. Their ire was directed at the Board of Elections, a bipartisan body long accused of mismanagement. Stringer announced an audit of the board but with no clear parameters and with a deadline still TBD—all as the June federal primary looms nearer. Stringer, a Democrat who has been in office two years, told me he witnessed a “sense of chaos” at the polls, in which voters were sent to the wrong locations or did not receive adequate help from workers. Mayor Bill de Blasio has also called for “major” reforms to the Board of Elections. (De Blasio could not be immediately reached for comment.)

The fallout from Tuesday has been undoubtedly negative. But New York is just the latest, and loudest, example of primary-day voting trouble this cycle. City officials, however, did dodge at least one proverbial bullet: If the outcome of either party’s race had been close, especially on the Democratic side, voters would be even angrier than they already are. And even more worried about what will happen in November.