LIVE ELECTION UPDATES: Westchester to begin counting secured emergency ballots today

Well the Westchester County Board of Elections will officially start counting those emergency ballots later on this morning. A big question many voters had yesterday and a big concern they had was how exactly will those ballots be safely collected and then transferred Over to the Board of Elections. Well, I want all of you to take a look at your screen right here for your answer. This is what the scene looked like here at the Board of Elections facility in Ardsley Tuesday night. This is after the polls closed at 9. Multiple police officers brought the bags filled with thousands of secured emergency ballots to the spot after a consent decree ordered by a New York State Supreme Court justice. That decree called for these procedures to ensure the security and proper handling of all ballots cast. The county board of elections says those ballots will remain under continuous police protection inside until counting begins at 11 this morning. Currently, the only numbers in Westchester that the board of elections has are from absentee ballots and early voting. So there are still a lot of contests to still be decided officially. Now, this is all because the majority of voting machines in Westchester would not accept those paper ballots on Election Day. And voters had to put them in secured orange bags. The State Board of Elections says it had to do with the machine's programming, while the County Board of Elections and County Executive Ken Jenkins says the issue was with the pre-printed ballot itself. Either way, Jenkins says members from both sides of the political spectrum are teaming up to investigate what exactly went down. We're going to convene a bipartisan team to conduct a thorough review of the decisions and failures that led to this debacle and determine where accountability lies and ensure that this never happens again. And Jenkins went on to also say another reason why this didn't happen during early voting was because they, one, were using different machines, and two, all ballots were printed on that same day when you would come in to vote. We're in Ardsley, Westchester County, Katarina Bilalis, News 12.