ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For the first time in a presidential election, New Mexico voters were allowed to register to vote and cast a ballot through election day. However, in a handful of counties, voters looking to do just that were met with big delays Tuesday morning. The same day voter registration process is supposed to take roughly 15 minutes, but some voters had to wait over an hour during their registration. "I was a bit frustrated because, once again, I waited two hours to register," said one local voter, Isabella Romero. According to the Secretary of State's Office, delays hit the registration system at around 8 a.m. in Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, and Bernalillo counties. "The slowness this morning was really a result of a lot of people utilizing the system," said Alex Curtas, with the New Mexico Secretary of State's Office. Clerks in Rio Arriba and Sandoval counties said they each registered hundreds of voters this morning. New Mexico's 2024 Election Results “We just rebooted it, they added more resources, and it looks like we are smooth sailing again," said Santa Fe County Clerk Katharine Clark. According to the Secretary of State's Office, the system was running smoothly again at around 9:30 a.m. "We, kind of, deployed some more of our IT resources to help the counties and help the system. And we, you know, created more capacity in the system to remedy that slowness,” said Curtas. "This is new technology, and this is actually such an important feature in New Mexico, you know. Other states do not have same day registration, which means voters are locked out of voting,” said Clark. More than 9,000 New Mexico voters cast their ballots through same day registration on Tuesday, which comes out to about one-quarter of the total number of the state's ballots cast on the day of this election.