A judge has granted permission for elections officials in a major New York county to move thousands of paper ballots to a secure warehouse after a technical problem caused vote-scanning machines to malfunction.
The New York Board of Elections said machines at locations throughout Westchester County would not accept paper ballots when polls opened Tuesday because of a programming glitch.
Voters were instructed to put completed ballots in bags that would be safeguarded to be processed later. Because of a programming glitch, the New York Board of Elections said machines at locations throughout Westchester County would not accept paper ballots when polls opened Tuesday. The Westchester County Board of Elections said the ballot counting was to begin at 11 am Wednesday. The real estate broker from White Plains said she completed her ballot around 7 a.m. and then dropped it into one of the designated ballot bags at her polling location as instructed.
The bags were to be transported under police escort to a county warehouse to be scanned and counted under the supervision of representatives of political parties, election officials said. Westchester resident Toni Chrystal said she felt “uneasy” after casting her vote Tuesday morning amid the ballot issues.
