Emanuel D. Lane, who voted at the City Hall Annex last year, said he read a notice in his apartment complex that he was to vote at the Miller River Apartments. When he arrived there, he found that he was supposed to go to Roosevelt towers.

Some suggested that the confusion was the fault of the voters themselves. Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir said, "There is no problem with redistricting. Every voter received a card telling where they would vote."

Joseph H. Kaplan, assistant director of the Election Commission, said, "We feel we've made the best effort possible." Kaplan acknowledged, however, that "in any large system a few are bound to slip through the cracks."

Barbara A. Broussard, manager of Manuel C. Barros's city council campaign, said, "Everyone in the area was notified and knew where they were supposed to go. I think they did a really good job [notifying people]."

Poppy M. Stewart, a clerk at Roosevelt Towers, which was a polling place for the first time this year, said, "turnout has been great." She said there was no confusion, because, "everyone was sent a card."

Some of those who were properly notified of the change were inconvenienced by it. Katherine Down, the election warden at Miller River, said, "people are angry because they don't want to be switched all around."

Rita A. Grassi campaigned for her brother Joe outside of the Miller River polling place. She said, "For the elderly it's hard to get up here. They used to go to St. Francis, and this is a much further walk."