(CNN) -- We're fresh out of English-language ballots. How about Japanese instead? That's basically what happened to voters at one precinct in Hawaii after a series of unfortunate events. First, the polling place at Hokulani Elementary School on the island of Oahu ran out of ballots. A two-hour line formed as polling workers tried to shuffle hundreds of people through a single electronic voting machine. Next, according to Mike Kratzke, who was working the election, officials delivered more ballots -- but they were the wrong ones, featuring the wrong local races. "Everyone stop! The ballots are wrong!" Kratzke recalls yelling over an angry mob.
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23 polling places in Hawaii ran out of ballots
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State officials sent backups, but some people reportedly left without voting
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John Sutter: Long lines and missing ballots undermine the process
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Hawaii says it underestimated the number of voters who would show up
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