Election Ballot Shortage

After this past general election there were many people who had gone to their respective polls just to find out that there were no more ballots to give out.  I couldn't believe this because all throughout the week before November 6th everyone was saying that everyday it's been really busy with voters coming in at all times of the day and the many absentee ballots coming in as well.  If they noticed that the voting lines were always long wouldn't they think that they should probably arrange to have more than the usual number of ballots available at each voting location?  I would think that would be the logical thing to do, but apparently no followed through with that task and now many people were unable to cast their vote.  I wonder, if those people had been able to vote would the results be different?  Though come to think of it, I think the only close-ish race was the Mayor's seat.  The Senate seat between Lingle and Hirono was a total land slide which I was completely surprised.  I thought that Lingle would've at least been close but I guess not.  Just goes to show how many people are loyal to Mazie Hirono.