He arrived at the Rudston Road polling station with his wife and eldest daughter at 9.35pm to be told they had run out of ballot papers.
He said: “I couldn’t believe it. It is a disgrace. My democratic right has been taken away.
“There was no information about what we should do. My voter number was taken but I haven’t been able to cast my vote.”
Robert Moss also said he was unable to vote in either election.
The 54-year-old, from Mossley Hill, arrived at the polling station at the scout hut in Garston’s Ambergate Road at 9.20pm.
When he finally got inside at 9.50pm he was told there were no ballot papers left.
He told the ECHO: “I am very disappointed. It’s not as if I left it to the last minute.
“People inside were saying that voting is their legal right and I feel the same.”
The investigation into the shortage of local authority ballot papers was continuing with an announcement on the situation expected later today.
