LEWISTON — A long line of people waited to register to vote Tuesday night at Longley Elementary School. Nancy Lowe said it was the presidential race that brought her out.

“I voted for Hillary Clinton. I really dislike Trump and what he stands for.” She resents how he regards women, she said. “I get the feeling (he thinks) women should not be in the workforce and should be at home.”

Ellen Bennett, waiting her turn to register, said voting is important, “a duty.”

She was voting for Trump. “I feel while he has his problems, he’s a lot more honest.”

Meanwhile some voters, including Christian Peterson and Scott Lowe, didn’t like either Trump or Clinton, and left the presidential race on their ballots blank.

Voter turnout in Lewiston was heavy Tuesday, election workers said, with lines at all the polls.

“Voting was steady all day, but at 5 p.m. we got bombed,” said Ward 5 Warden Clerk Irene MacDougall. At one point around 6 p.m. the line of voters waiting to register at Longley snaked out of the lobby, down the hall and almost to the front door.

“We’re as organized as we can be at this stage of the game,” said Assistant City Administrator Phil Nadeau, who was helping people register. “We can only process so many ballots at one time.” Overall, voters were patient, he said.

But one man got upset at Somali voters to the point that MacDougall said she had to intervene.

“He was raising questions about multiple people going in to vote,” Nadeau said. “He was telling me his opinion about the illegality of that. I shared with him it was not illegal. I said, ‘If you have an issue, take it up with the warden.’”

MacDougall said the man came into the voting area with a camera.

“He wanted to take pictures of everybody who had somebody in the booth with them!” MacDougall said. He was told he could not, that voters are allowed to have someone with them if they need assistance with the language, seeing or reading.

Meanwhile a Lewiston interpreter for Somali residents told MacDougall that the man “was making all kinds of comments about us being illegal and not being able to vote,” she said.

MacDougall said she watched as the man “put his face into a little Somali girl’s face and said, ‘Are you voting?’ She said yes.”

“I said ‘Enough!” and got between the two, MacDougall said. She told him, “You need to keep your comments to yourself. And when you’re done I want to talk to you.’”

The man said he wanted to vote first, but then left before MacDougall could talk to him. She didn’t get his name.

The man declined to talk to a Sun Journal reporter and photographer, saying, “I have people to talk to” and left.

The incident upset a few people, but didn’t disturb voting.

Jamilo Maalin, a Somali native, said Tuesday was her first time voting since becoming a citizen in 2014.

She voted for Clinton and said she doesn’t like what Trump has said about immigrants and Somali residents.

“I have two kids. I was thinking about them if Trump became president. The things that come out of that guy’s mouth. It’s scary.”