Ken Jenkins

A programming glitch is causing headaches for voters in Westchester County, New York, where voting machines started rejecting ballots earlier today.

But County Executive Ken Jenkins says those ballots have been set aside and will be counted.

No voters should be discouraged from participating in this election because of this issue.

Your voice matters and your vote matters.

Up to 250,000 ballots have been affected by the voting machine issue in Westchester County, New York State.

Ken Jenkins, Westchester County executive, said in a news conference that voting machines have been unable to scan as many as a quarter million ballots across 332 polling stations.

Maybe I'll eat my words here because I was saying that things seem to be going more smoothly today than I'm used to, but I guess not.

I guess the trouble will come as the day goes on.

In this election, it was very strange to me to discover that there were some glitches in the voting systems.

And in Westchester County, Executive Ken Jenkins said in a video statement that there was a county-wide issue in New York where the ballot was not going through the scanner.

And I can tell you it happened in Nevada.

But then we have to have a voting machine.

and includes communities where there are several consequential congressional races that are being decided.

According to the New York Post, County Executive Ken Jenkins confirmed that the voting machines at numerous polling places were rejecting ballots.

So Representative Mike Lawler, who was fighting for reelection in the region, sounded the alarm.

So he apparently wrote on X, there is a problem with every ballot scanner in Westchester County.

The scanners, have you ever watched a shell game where they just keep moving the three objects around on the table until you can't remember where the little nut was? The scanners still running the original programs couldn't recognize the ballots.

County Executive Ken Jenkins says the machines were not hacked.

Governor Hochul said, quote, every vote will be counted.

I think I need to say that three times.

In this election, it was very strange to me to discover that there were some glitches in the voting systems.

And in Westchester County, Executive Ken Jenkins said in a video statement that there was a county-wide issue in New York where the ballot was not going through the scanner.

And I can tell you it happened in Nevada.

But then we have to have a voting machine.

with local election officials insisting all ballots would be counted.

Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins says there was a contingency plan in place.

There is a county-wide issue at all of the polling locations where the ballot is not going through the scanner.

In those cases, the procedure at the Board of Elections is to put them into the secure orange bag, as well as they may put them into the ballot box there for the mail-in ballots that someone may bring in.

with local election officials insisting all ballots would be counted.

Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins says the New York State Board of Elections have things well in hand.

Let's think about this as the old days in the school when you go to the board of elections or you go to your polling place, you still get your ballot and you fill that ballot out.

When you go to the machine and you would put it into the scanner, that part is not working the same right now.

last night, folks, not midnight.

So, you know, Ken Jenkins was upset in Westchester County about what happened with the machines, but it didn't matter.

It wasn't like he kindly cheated.

Don't go there this morning.