Westchester County vote count delayed due to system glitch: Court-ordered scan underway

Westchester County officials are promising to count every vote cast in the district starting at 11 o'clock this morning. All right, they're going to keep counting because of a glitch. Many of the county's machines were unable to scan ballots. Good day's Francis Wang joins us now with a look at the problem. Francis, we first started to hear about this, I mean, early in the voting yesterday. Yeah, and there was quite a bit of panic and chaos, right? Voters weren't sure what to expect. So now election day may be over, but this morning thousands of ballots They still need to be counted. This is after that countywide scanner malfunction. We're also learning more about what caused the problem in the first place and the court-ordered plan to make sure every vote is counted. Let's get you to video of the ballots. This is the ballots being transported overnight with police escorts you see there. The counting process is set to begin at 11 promptly this morning at a Board of Elections facility in Ardsley. Now, this is all because some scanners across Westchester County failed to accept paper ballots on Election Day. Voters were still able to cast their ballots, but instead of feeding them into those machines, many were placed into these secure orange emergency bags. You see them here. This is part of the Board of Elections protocol for this kind of emergency. Then those orange bags were put into larger blue bags and transported under supervision to that Ardsley facility. And now, under a court order, they're going to be scanned and counted with representatives from both parties overseeing the process. There won't be any interruptions. The whole ordeal, though, left many voters uneasy yesterday. That is just a little nerve-wracking because of all the discussion that's going on in the news and with our politicians about unfair elections, although I don't believe in our president's opinion that Democrats are the one cheating, but we shall see. This is just going to set up a long process of who's going to contest. The votes were, you know, manipulated, that's all it's going to do, it's going to drag this on. So we're not going to know who's going to be actually officially won until months from now. We're just going to draw it on, that's all it is. Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins called the situation unacceptable, saying once the ballot counting issue was resolved, he'll also put together a bipartisan team to review what led to this, quote, debacle and to ensure this doesn't ever happen again. And all of this, Dan Rosanna, comes as Republican Congressman Mike Lawler. He's already conceded his race to Democrat Kate Connolly in the 17th Congressional District. Even with those Westchester ballots still outstanding, Lawler said he would still fall short. As for when we will have a complete count, officials have not given a timeline, but they say the process will go on until every vote is counted. Rosanna, Dan? It's just unbelievable that this even happened, you know? I mean, so early in the voting process, was nothing checked? Yeah, and they weren't sure exactly what happened, and then they were mostly saying, you still need to go, you can still vote, that your votes will eventually be counted. Frances, thank you very much.