Westchester ballot scanners fail as DOJ presses election cases
Original title: Ballot scanner malfunctions, flurry of federal legal actions test election officials on final day of voting
Officials blame thick ballots and say bagged votes will count, while X posts framed the failures as fraud.
Westchester County said some ballot scanners rejected ballots that were too thick and directed voters to place them in monitored emergency bags for later counting. Researchers reported rumor posts on X rising to about 100 a minute, with no evidence of foul play. Separately, the Justice Department charged 63 people over alleged noncitizen voting, courts rejected late administration lawsuits, and the department said it would send 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states.
Unconfirmed: Scanner problems have no reported evidence of foul play, and the noncitizen-voting cases are charges rather than proven conduct.
- New York Attorney General Letitia James said Westchester votes will still count.
- A court told DOJ and DHS to stop sending “potential noncitizen” voter lists to states.
- Administration lawyers acknowledged that underlying data has a high error rate.
- Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, rejected late ballot lawsuits.
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