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The phones haven’t stopped ringing at the Louisiana Democratic Party offices in Baton Rouge since the polls opened Saturday (May 16) morning.

Executive director Dadrius Lanus said there have been too many to answer them all — as many as 300, possibly more — flooding in from across the state.

“And this is just the ones that we could field,” Lanus said. “We have been fielding calls since 6 a.m. People are still calling."

The calls describe the same issues residents who voted early described to the Gulf States Newsroom: ballot irregularities, voters unable to vote in the U.S. Senate primary, being steered away from Democratic ballots and election officials demanding that No Party voters sign affidavits without allowing them to retain copies.

Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry’s office has not responded to repeated email and phone requests for clarification, interviews or statements since Wednesday.

Voters are also reporting problems exercising their right to vote.

Thomas Edick and his wife, Mira Kohl, told the Gulf States Newsroom that they walked two blocks to their polling place this morning in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. Both are registered Democrats. Both expected to vote in the Democratic Senate primary. Neither was able to.

“It was greyed out in the booth, along with the [U.S. House] race,” Kohl said.

When Edick flagged it to a poll worker, he said he was told the Democratic Senate primary wasn't being held and that it would be scheduled for the fall. This scenario, however, is the case for the state’s U.S. House primary, which Gov. Jeff Landry postponed in late April following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais — which deemed the state’s congressional map was unconstitutional due to racial gerrymandering.