BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)--Secretary of State William Galvin says he will most likely appoint a receiver to seize control of Boston's election division, after certain polling locations in the city did not have enough ballots during Election Day on Tuesday, causing the secretary's office to prompt police cars to turn on their sirens to rush extra ballots to those locations. "The concern I have is, they say they ran out. Well, there's no reason to run out. They had the ballots -- they didn't distribute them properly," Galvin said at a press conference at the State House on Wednesday afternoon. "The reason was just poor planning, but most especially, lack of communication." Massachusetts Ballot Questions Election Results Galvin said his office, which oversees every local election office in the state, delivered the ballots to Boston in early October. From there, the city had to distribute them to more than 200 precincts. Between five and 10 polling locations ran out of ballots around 5 p.m., he said -- though he added that his office will conduct an investigation that could offer more insight on these details -- and the areas most affected were in Hyde Park, Roslindale, and West Roxbury. There was also one polling location in Dorchester that ran out of ballots Tuesday night. Galvin said his office tried calling and emailing the city's election division many times, but got no response all day. Finally, an official from his office went down in-person to the city's election office to coordinate the police response to get the ballots delivered. "Fortunately, I think by using the police vehicles and getting it out there as rapidly as possible, we captured most of the people who wanted to vote," Galvin said. "And surely, since we did all this in the five to six o'clock hour, that gave an additional two hours for people to return to their polls, which tend to be right in their neighborhood area. It's unacceptable that voters have to do that." Galvin previously put Boston's election division under receivership in 2006, he said, after a similar issue with missing ballots disrupted Election Day. That year, he said, the issue arose in neighborhoods of Boston where high numbers of people of color live. It was the election in which former Gov. Deval Patrick was elected as the first Black governor of Massachusetts, and Galvin said some precincts were "short changed" in getting to vote. This year, he said, he believes the issue was resolved quickly enough that most people stayed in line to vote. "Fortunately, in all of those areas, there were no local races that a small number of ballots could change. That's not the issue. The issue is with the voter's rights. It's not about the candidates, it's about the ballot questions. It's about the voter's rights, which we want to protect," Galvin said.