BULLETIN
WPCNR ELECTION 2026: By John F. Bailey
WESTCHESTER COUNTY EXECUTIVE KEN JENKINS ANNOUNCED THIS AFTERNOON COUNTY AND STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR COUNTING THE 250,000 PLUS VOTES (INCLUDING 125,000 VOTES CAST EARLY) IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND ANNOUNCING THE RESULTS.
THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE SAID THE COUNTY IS CURRENTLY REPROGRAMMING BALLOT-READING SCANNERS ACROSS THE COUNTY BY ADJUSTING SCANNERS USED FOR EARLY VOTING TO ACCEPT THE BALLOTS CAST TODAY. HE SAID THERE WOULD BE NO HAND COUNTS.
HE SAID THE ERROR THAT CAUSED COUNTYWIDE FAILURE OF ALL BUT ONE SCANNER WAS CAUSED BY A PRINTER ERROR IN PRINTING THE INCORRECT “BAR CODE” ON THE BALLOTS DELIVERED TO THE ELECTION DISTRICTS IN THE COUNTY. HE SAID A BOARD OF REVIEW WOULD EXAMINE HOW THE ERROR WAS MADE.
ASKED IF THE MACHINES HAD ALL BEEN TESTED, JENKINS TOLD THE NEWS CONFERENCE THE ONE DISTRICT WHERE THE DELIVERED BALLOT WAS TESTED WORKED FINE. HOWEVER THE REST OF THEE MACHINES ACROSS THE COUNTY DID NOT ACCEPT THE BALLOTS.
JENKINS WHO VOTES IN YONKERS AND VOTED EARLY BEFORE ELECTION DAY, SAID HE GOT A CALL AT 6:15 THIS MORNING FROM A DISTRICT THAT INFORMED THE BALLOTS WERE NOT BEING READ BY THE BALLOT-READING SCANNER AT THE DISTRICT, NOT NAMED.
JENKINS AND THE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS FORMULATED A “PLAN B” TO REPROGRAM THE “EARLY VOTING” SCAMMERS. THIS SOLUTION WAS BASED ON TARRYTOWN REPORTING THEY ADJUSTED THEIR SCANNER USED FOR EARLY VOTING TO COUNT THE BALLOTS ALREADY CAST, REJECTED BY THEIR OTHER SCANNER.
THIS MORNING AFTER THE COUNTY AND BOARD OF ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN GOING TO DISTRICTS WITH EARLY VOTING SCANNERS TO REPROGRAM THEM AND TRANSPORT THEM TO 113 DISTRICTS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY CONTAINING CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 17.
YOU MAY CAST YOUR VOTE UP UNTIL 9 PM TONIGHT AND IF YOU GET ON THE LINE BY 8:59 YOU WILL ACCEPTED TO VOTE, JENKINS SAID.
HE SAID THERE WOULD BE NO VOTE COUNTS TONIGHT.
BACK UP MACHINES ARE BEING REPROGRAMMED TO COUNT CAST VOTES AT EXISTING LOCATIONS.
NO COUNTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED TONIGHT.
TOTAL VOTES EXPECTED 250,000.
BOARD OF ELECTIONS PERSONNEL STARTED COLLECTING CAST BALLOTS TODAY.