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Twenty to 30 polling places called city election officials reporting they had either run out of ballots or voter registration forms or were running low and feared running out, Sue Edman, executive director of the city election commission, said Tuesday night.

Edman said additional ballots and forms were taken to those districts and that to her knowledge no voter missed the chance to vote because of a shortage. She said she didn't have a specific list of polling places that reported shortages, but said most of them were on the city's north side.

Edman said she was expecting 270,000 voters in the city but didn't have an estimate of today's total but said the crush of voters seemed to exceed anything she's seen in her seven years as head of the election commission.

At Bradley Tech High School, voting continued until about 8:20, 20 minutes after the official close of voting, because of a line at the polls. Registered voters were able to vote on time, but those who came to register at the polls had waits of 25-30 minutes.

Poll workers at Phyllis Wheatley School, 2442 N. 20th St., reported having only about 110 paper ballots and 12 registration forms shortly after 6 p.m. with many people waiting in line. The polling place had already run low on ballots earlier in the day and election officials dropped off more.

As of 6 p.m. 548 ballots were cast at Phyllis Wheatley School, more than twice as many as in previous elections, said Lois Sneed, chief elections inspector.

Reports of ballots running out at a polling site in Sherman Park on Tuesday evening couldn't be confirmed.

Registration forms for residents signing up to vote also ran low or were gone at several wards in Milwaukee. Janet Veum, communications coordinator for Wisconsin Jobs Now, said registration forms ran out at Wards 141 and 142 at 2450 N. 6th St. Ballots and registration forms ran out at 53rd St. School, and ballots were running low at the Center St. Library.

Poll workers at Wards 108 and 109 at Ben Franklin School, 2308 W. Nash St., and Wards 110 and 111 at Children's Outing Association, 2320 W. Burleigh St., also reported running out of registration forms for new voters.

"The issue is there are a lot of people waiting in line to register to vote but there are no forms," said Veum. "We know that hundreds of people have not voted because there were no forms available."

Reid Magney, a spokesman for the Government Accountability Board, said his office had heard of polling stations in Milwaukee running out of registration forms for new voters.

According to state law, if a person is waiting in line to register and vote and it's after 8 p.m., that person can still legally fill out the form and vote, Magney said.