DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Bucks County voters waited in long lines to take advantage of on-demand voting after a lawsuit forced the county to extend the deadline for mail-in voting.

“I thought, ‘What a great opportunity to take advantage of,'” said Brian Hensel, who waited more than an hour in line at the Bucks County Administration Building in Doylestown.

Hensel said that after missing the original Oct. 29 deadline to request a mail-in ballot, he was happy to take care of the process before Election Day.

“We were all talking about it. It’s like being at an amusement park and meeting the people in line,” he said.

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He is one of hundreds of people in Bucks County who took advantage of the extra time to vote on demand.

That meant voters could request, receive, complete and return their mail-in ballots in one trip.

It’s different than voting in person, on a machine, on Election Day.

“He said, ‘Are you going to vote in person today?'” Christine Chianese of New Hope said of her experience in line. “I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Fill this out.’”

Chianese filled out his mail-in ballot application while waiting in line.

The process had caused some confusion.

“I’m still going to do it,” Chianese said.

The original deadline for Pennsylvania to request a mail-in ballot was Tuesday at 5 p.m.

He Trump campaign later sued Bucks Countyaccusing officials of turning away voters before that deadline.

There seemed to be confusion about whether you had to be in line before 5 p.m. or if your application needed to be processed before 5 p.m.

A judge sided with the Trump campaign and extended the deadline in Bucks County, leading to long lines at both the county’s satellite centers in Levittown, Quakertown and the main office in Doylestown.

In Levittown, one man told Action News he waited in line for three or four hours, maybe longer.

“They told us we were two and a half hours away and it’s been almost three and a half and we’re probably still an hour away,” said George Schott of Yardley while waiting in line.

Bucks County Republican Committeeman Pat Poprik said the reason this satellite center had such a long wait was due to a combination of limited space and only having one printer.

“These printers are specially sent by the State. They can only print the ballots one by one,” Poprik explained. “Lack of enough supplies and that printer is a real problem. Doylestown had two.”

Voters said they all had their own reasons for choosing to vote by mail.

“I’ve always voted on election day, I’m a big believer in it, but this year I volunteered as a poll watcher,” said Matthew Tevnan from Warrington.

“We decided to go out together and vote early,” Swati Kaushik said of herself and her family. “We were hoping it would be a smaller line, but it’s not.”

The county’s open offices also gave mail-in voters the opportunity to resolve issues before Election Day.

Kelly Durie says she returned her ballot two weeks ago, but it was never processed.

“Both of our ballots have not yet been received even though we delivered them to a person behind glass in this building,” Durie said.

Bucks County officials said anyone who was in line at the end of the business day (that is, at 5 p.m. at the county offices in Doylestown and at 4:30 p.m. at the satellite offices in Levittown and Quakertown) had the opportunity to vote on demand. .

Volunteers and poll workers stayed late into the night to seat voters and help them with the process.

The deadline to return a mail-in ballot is before 8 pm on Election Day, which is Tuesday, November 5.