HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- New ballots were delivered to a Hollywood polling place Tuesday morning after election workers discovered that the entire first page of some of the ballots was incorrect.

The problem occurred at the David Park Community Center, the polling place for precincts 27, 28 and 40.

Earlier in the morning at the same polling place, some voters reported that the Amendment 3 question appeared twice on their ballots, Local 10's Sasha Andrade reported. Some people said they voted on the issue twice or left one blank, and the scanning machines started to reject them.

Voters were worried that their votes would not count.

"It might not. I don't trust what's going on in there right now," said one voter. "The 21st century, and here we are acting like third-world countries."

Later, workers realized that the entire first page was incorrect. Broward County Supervisor of Elections Dr. Brenda Snipes said only a minimal number of ballots were incorrect, but she did not say how many were affected.

One voter told Andrade that she voted on Tuesday morning, saw the story on TV about the incorrect ballots and returned to the polling place because she was scared her vote was not going to count.

Officials said the voters whose ballots might have been affected should not return to vote again. Election workers said they plan to hand-count the ballots to make sure that each vote counts.

Optical Scanner Replaced At Hammocks Fire Rescue Station

One of the two optical scanning machines used to record ballots at the polling station in the Miami-Dade Hammocks Fire Rescue station had to be replaced on Tuesday morning.

Between 25 and 50 voters had to put their ballots into a provisional ballot box because they could not wait for the optical scanners to be replaced.

The clerk at the polling station said the scanner feeder would not accept the ballots, possibly because of humidity. The ballots have been kept in a locked ballot box, being watched by poll workers.

That did not comfort voters who got up early to join the voting line at the precinct only to learn their votes still had not been officially counted as of Tuesday afternoon.

"We were not able to vote electronically. We just were able to put our voting papers in the little box. It feels awkward because you are not sure where your votes are going," said voter Faye Sibai.

Local 10 asked the clerk at the precinct how they would assure voters their ballots would be counted.

"We assure them they're welcome to come back to watch us and make sure we have two people scanning their ballots, making sure it's being cast," said Sabrina Diaz, the clerk of the polling station. "They're welcome to come and watch."

Long Lines, Vote Counting Machines Cause Problems In Fla.

Long lines formed, some vote counting machines jammed and fear that ballots would go uncounted lingered Tuesday as Florida tried to repair a reputation still sullied from the 2000 recount.

Scattered problems with optical scan machines, which count the ballots, and malfunctioning electronic signature pads were the most common complaints reported across the state.

Lines snaked out of some precincts, with wait times of up to two hours at sites in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, the state's most populous, and upwards of three hours at the University of South Florida in Tampa and the University of Central Florida in Orlando. But officials said most voters waited just 15 or 20 minutes.

Several polling places opened late, but Secretary of State Kurt Browning, who oversees the election, appeared to breath a sigh of relief.

"It's been a good day," he said. "I'm almost hesitant to say, it's been eerily quiet."

Minor problems were spotted around the state, but it seemed the most marked issue was voters' nagging anxieties that 2000 would somehow be replayed.

"I'm concerned that everyone who comes out to vote, that their vote is counted," said Patricia Blackmon of Miami, who was waiting for her 86-year-old mother and 90-year-old stepfather to cast ballots in one of the city's predominantly African-American precincts.

During the 2000 presidential election, ballot design and vote counting problems led to a contentious, 36-day recount resulted in George W. Bush winning the state (and, therefore, the White House) by 537 votes over Al Gore.

Since then, voting equipment has been standardized -- all of Florida's 67 counties now use optical scan machines -- and early voting was introduced. This year, some 4.2 million of the state's 11.2 million registered voters cast early or absentee ballots.

Though officials were optimistic the state would avoid the problems that led to 2000's fiasco, plenty of lawyers descended to watch over the process.

Among the complaints were instances of ballots missing pages, rejected absentee ballots that voters neglected to sign and a power outage at one polling place in Manatee County. More than 1,800 calls flowed into the state's voter hot line by mid-afternoon, but officials said most simply were checking a polling place or their registration status.

Optical scan machines malfunctioned in dozens of places around the state, from Bonita Springs to Orlando to Clearwater. The machines tabulate ballots that voters fill out using pens; problems happen if a voter or poll worker manhandles the ballot and jams it into the machine.

Problem ballots were placed in a so-called "emergency ballot box" -- and workers were to feed those ballots through the scanners after the polls close. Voting rights advocates say this is a problem because voters won't be able to see if there are problems with their ballot, or have the opportunity to make changes.

Both campaigns made allegations of attempts to suppress their voters. Some students around the state reported receiving a text message that said, in part, "Due to long lines today, all Obama voters are asked to vote on Wednesday."

Alec Rivera, an 18-year-old volunteer for the Obama campaign at the University of Miami, said he'd heard from about six people that they'd received the message. "I knew that voting day is the last day to vote," he said. "They questioned it and they just wanted to make sure."