As the golden state of California voted in the Super Tuesday primary, the heavily populated Los Angeles County reportedly experienced an upsurge of technical issues at several polling places, where people waited in line for several hours to cast their ballots due to allegedly faulty voting machines.

“Los Angeles voters who showed up to cast ballots in person on Tuesday reported long wait times and operational errors at a number of the county’s newly designed vote centers, experiences adding up to an inauspicious beginning for L.A.’s first fully redesigned election system in more than half a century,” reported the Los Angeles Times. “While some Angelenos had a different experience — giving the new voting machines high marks and applauding the extended hours of operation — a number of the in-person locations were unprepared to handle the throngs of voters who wanted to participate in the most talked-about California presidential primary in at least a generation.”

Jefferson Stewart, a software designer, reported to have waited in line for over 90 minutes to cast his vote at the Westchester Family YMCA. At the Eagle Rock Recreation Center, Christian Donovan said he arrived early to vote on Tuesday but was delayed with two of the six voting machines being out of order.

“That was a little disconcerting,” said Donovan. “And, at the time, it didn’t really cause a huge issue for me because there weren’t that many people there, but I can see how if there was a large crowd the line could stack up.”

Omar Noureldin, a resident in Arcadia, reported seeing a line of people trailing down two flights of stairs at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles that eventually poured out onto the sidewalk. “Those people that are in line around the corner are probably going to be there for three hours — if they wait,” he said.

The main issue: lack of proper staff and malfunctioning voting machines. L.A. County voting officials did not immediately confirm the exact source of the problem. More from the Los Angeles Times: