DEVELOPING: Ballot Scanners Malfunction Across Westchester County, New York – Ballots Being Placed in Orange Bags?

by **Jordan Conradson**

No later than the polls opened in Westchester County, New York, at 6 am this morning, the machines started malfunctioning in what the Board of Elections has reportedly called a countywide problem.
Trump-Endorsed Republican Bruce Blakeman is on the ballot, challenging New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
Now, instead of scanning their votes, people are being told to place their ballots in ballot bags, which will later be sent to the Board of Elections to be counted.
Per News 12:
The Westchester County Board of Elections says an issue with the thickness of paper ballots is preventing voting machines from accepting them at polling locations throughout the county. Officials urge voters to stay in line and complete their ballots as instructed, saying ballots will be secured in monitored orange emergency ballot bags and counted according to election procedures.
The board is instructing poll workers to check voters in and provide them with ballots. The ballots are being placed in orange bags while technicians work to resolve the problems.
The bags will be sent to the Board of Elections at the end of the night. Those ballots will be counted first, before ballots cast through the machines.