Students who had planned Monday to vote early on the second floor of Rams Head Dining Hall were stalled after voting officials said they had to retrieve more Democratic ballots from their car.
Toward the end of the first day for early voting and registration, the D003 ballot — one of the Chapel Hill Democratic tickets — ran out at the on-campus precinct at around 4 p.m.
But there were mixed opinions about how long it took to retrieve more of the ballots.
James Weathers, chief judge of the voting precinct, said the ballots were missing for 10 minutes at most.
There were problems with parking, but the ballots were in the vicinity, he said.
“We had them out there in the car.
“We get our ballots from the district,” Weathers said. “We went and grabbed 500 of (every type of ballot).”
Students, however, said they experienced the lull differently.
“They said it would be about five minutes, but it ended up being 20 or 25 minutes,” said Eden Sipperly, a freshman environmental sciences major.