“It’s unacceptable,” he added. “When you have a situation where a significant number of people are disadvantaged, you are skewing the votes.”

Fred O. Smith ’04, a candidate for council representative in Leverett House, said he also had problems voting.

“My Web-browser wouldn’t support it,” he said. “That happened to a friend of mine, too.”

Yesterday’s glitches are the latest in a string of issues that have plagued the council’s attempts to move to Web-based voting this year.

On Monday afternoon, the day before the elections were slated to begin, administrators disallowed the council’s original plan to proceed.

Students would have been required to log into a non-Harvard website using their PINs and identification numbers to vote—a procedure administrators rejected over security concerns because personal student information would have been stored on an outside server.

Then, on Tuesday, voting was delayed again because Morgenstern and Edward D. Lim ’02, both of whom worked to revamp the council’s website over the summer, had not yet received data from the registrar’s office that would allow them to move ahead with the council’s new e-mail voting plan.

Despite the numerous delays, several students who did vote in the election praised the council’s website.

“It seemed pretty clear. I thought it was very professional,” Sheri J. Ward ’04 said.

“It was very understandable,” said Richard J. Przekop ’05. “It was easy.”

—Staff writer Alexander J. Blenkinsopp can be reached at blenkins@fas.harvard.edu.