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Madison -- In spite of Tuesday’s record turnout, the wait to vote at UW-Madison polling locations remained manageable, officials there said.

University officials stressed that delays for the campus locations didn’t hit the one and two hour waits seen at UW-Green Bay and Marquette University at some points Tuesday.

“The city clerk's office tells us the max wait time was about 15 minutes,” spokeswoman Meredith McGlone said.

The city of Madison clerk was unavailable to comment on Tuesday and again on Wednesday morning.

In general, voting went smoothly in Milwaukee and statewide as turnout hit levels not seen in a spring election since 1972.

But some students around the state had long waits. Those who procrastinated on registering to vote faced their usual challenges in doing so at the polls, state and Milwaukee elections officials have said. In some cases meeting the state’s new requirement that voters show a valid photo ID also played a more limited role.

At UW-Madison, a printer at Gordon Dining Hall was down for four hours on Monday, which inconvenienced 25 students who wanted to obtain voter IDs before election day. They were sent to another location distributing the IDs.

The UW-Madison registrar's office created a direct link that students could access at polling places to show election workers proof of address via enrollment records.

Students using the UW-Madison-issued student IDs also had to show the registrar verification of enrollment or some other proof of address to vote.