"You're keeping people from voting."

DECATUR, GA (CBS46) -

Voters waited for nearly two hours election day at one polling place in DeKalb County due to issues with the validation machines.

"The machines are freezing," said Danielle Slaughter, who waited in line so long she nearly missed work.

Slaughter and others, voting at Saint Philip AME Church in Decatur, said while there were a plethora of voting machines, there were only three voter validation machines, which were struggling to work most of the day.

"I watched people get frustrated and leave," Ken Proctor said. "You're keeping people from voting."

Proctor said provisional ballots were handed out to people who couldn't wait in line that long, but those ballots quickly ran out.

DeKalb County election officials were not immediately available to comment on the issues. However, they said earlier in the day they felt well-prepared.

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