The 2018 midterm election was unique in how people become more impassioned to elect their party and their candidates into offices that may be more important now than ever before.

However, this passion led to several instances of corrupt and invalid elections with numerous state and county elections officials across the country creating new obstacles to vote, refusing to count some ballots, and other actions that impaired democratic processes.

In Arizona, for example, a polling location in Chandler was foreclosed as ordered by a federal court the night before the election, with all of the election materials and voting machines locked inside the building. Voters were forced to drive across the city to vote; however, traffic made many voters arrive late at the new polling place and thus were unable to vote, per the Arizona Republic.

Many states have laws that prevent everyone from having equal voting access, like in Tennessee, where voters who don’t seem to be citizens– generally people of color and foreign origins– can be barred from voting by polling place officials until they can prove at the polling location that they are  US Citizens per the American Bar Association.

Additionally, many states that have photo-ID requirements to vote mandate that the photo ID’s be government issued, posing a problem where one in 4 African-Americans don’t have a government issued ID, per the American Bar Association.

However, all eyes are turned to Georgia, where 90,000 voters lost their voter registration due to a lack of voting activity, name changes and various other reasons without alert, 53,000 voters were unable to vote due to subtle inconsistencies between the signature on the ballot and on their voter registration paper, and many polling locations were missing essentials like power cords for voting machines. Approximately 80% of the affected voters are African-American, NBC reports.

Additionally, in many states, mail-in ballots mysteriously have disappeared. In Florida, some 300 ballots were mysteriously found in mail facility and state officials are refusing to count them, also begging the question of how many other ballots could be missing, according to CNN.

In response to such events, many activist groups and even political parties have called for recounts and filed lawsuits, leading courts to order recounts and change in election procedures.