Ballot Scanner Malfunctions in Westchester County, NY Fuel Election Disinformation Amid Federal Legal Actions
On Election Day in Westchester County, New York, ballot scanner malfunctions caused by ballots too thick for the machines led to rejections, prompting officials to direct affected voters to use emergency ballot bags. While equipment failures are common and officials found no evidence of foul play, the incident was rapidly amplified by conspiracist accounts and outlets such as The Gateway Pundit, with researcher Kate Starbird noting posts about the issue on X reached up to 100 per minute. The Westchester County Board of Elections and New York Attorney General Letitia James sought to reassure voters that ballots would be counted. Separately, the Department of Justice announced charges against 63 individuals for alleged noncitizen voting and deployed 1,000 election monitors nationwide, part of a broader Trump administration push on noncitizen voting claims that federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have repeatedly rejected as outside the executive branch's authority over state-run elections.
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Ballot Scanner Malfunctions in Westchester County, NY Fuel Election Disinformation Amid Federal Legal Actions
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On Election Day in Westchester County, New York, ballot scanner malfunctions caused by ballots too thick for the machines led to rejections, prompting officials to direct affected voters to use emergency ballot bags. While equipment failures are common and officials found no evidence of foul play, the incident was rapidly amplified by conspiracist accounts and outlets such as The Gateway Pundit, with researcher Kate Starbird noting posts about the issue on X reached up to 100 per minute. The Westchester County Board of Elections and New York Attorney General Letitia James sought to reassure voters that ballots would be counted. Separately, the Department of Justice announced charges against 63 individuals for alleged noncitizen voting and deployed 1,000 election monitors nationwide, part of a broader Trump administration push on noncitizen voting claims that federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have repeatedly rejected as outside the executive branch's authority over state-run elections.