He said that because the court order wasn’t received until 7:30, election board staffers were able to reach no more than five of the polling places affected by the court order.

Fey said he didn’t know how many of those polling places actually allowed people to vote after 7 p.m. But he said that some did — and that in at least two instances, election board staffers drove to the locations with ballots for people to cast. He also said a few people cast ballots at the election board office.

It was unclear how many people were turned away from voting throughout the day, but the impact of the problems was widespread.

The frustration that grew exponentially across the county throughout the day began at 6 a.m. when an absence of ballots caused election workers to turn residents away from polling places.

Tom Jennings showed up outside a precinct at Our Lady of Lourdes parish elementary school shortly before the polls opened to canvas for University City Council candidate Terry Crow.

“They had ballots for the first five people that came in,” Jennings said. “That was it after that.”

As the list of polling irregularities continued to grow, so, too, did the number of officials condemning the county election board.