by Huda Ahmed/WEST OAKLAND

Long lines of voters snaked from polling stations all over West Oakland yesterday as the historic presidential campaign came to a close. Pamela Martin, 51, who volunteers at the West Oakland Senior Center, shared her thoughts with East Bay West Online.

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by Japhet Weeks/BERKELEY

A post from SFist.com today quotes a reader saying that a polling place in San Francisco’s Mission District ran out of paper ballots by 9 a.m. this morning. Our sister site Mission Local confirms that more ballots were delivered by 9:30 a.m.

There seems to be no such problem on this side of the bay in Berkeley. At around 10 a.m. this morning, polling sites at two retirement homes, a library and a synagogue all had plenty of extra ballots.

A poll worker at Congregation Beth El in central Berkeley told this reporter that the Alameda County Registrar of Voters office had supplied them with twice as many paper ballots as there were voters regisered to vote there.

Esther Robinson, a supervisor at the Registrar’s office, said this morning that her office had ordered an “ample amount” of ballots.

“We have a percentage (of ballots) over and above those people registered at any particular polling place,” she said.

Wait times for voting, which were predicted to be longer than usual this year, seemed normal this morning.

One poll worker at the Berkshire Retirement Home in Berkeley described the situation today as “busy and slow.”