Washington, DC (CNN) A California lawmaker disappointed by the long lines during Los Angeles county's Super Tuesday voting announced a new proposal Thursday aimed at making the November general election run more smoothly for voters.

California Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Santa Monica, which is within LA County, announced plans to introduce legislation that would require the county to provide every voter with a vote-by-mail ballot or to significantly increase the number of vote centers on Election Day.

The election law proposal comes as LA County, the biggest voting district in the US, faced a myriad of voting challenges earlier this week on Super Tuesday that included ballot machines not working, access issues with the statewide voter registration database and other technical problems with the county's new voting machines which resulted in long wait times for voters.

"Voters should not have to drastically alter their daily lives in order to have their voice heard on election day," Allen said in a statement. "Voters deserve maximum flexibility when casting their ballots, and we need to ensure the county is providing every avenue and resource to make that possible. Something must change so that every vote can be cast and counted."

For this year's presidential primary, LA County used a new voting system, The Voting Solutions for All People system . Also known as VSAP, the new voting system is the country's first publicly owned and designed system which took a decade to make and cost about $300 million.

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