NYC Election Day glitches hit Queens voting machines

The NYC Board of Elections has sent technicians out to polling sites across Queens Tuesday after reports that machines at several locations were rejecting ballots.
Vinnie Ignizio, BOE’s deputy executive director, confirmed to the Daily News that some scanners in the borough had been “kicking ballots out,” requiring them to be scanned multiple times for votes to be recorded.
In a statement issued shortly before noon, the BOE said “corrective measures” had been taken, and that machines at all 290 polling places borough wide had been inspected “in an abundance of caution.”
Ignizio said that the machines had been eventually registering votes, and that ballots which were outright rejected by the scanners would be counted later in the day at the BOE’s Queens borough office.
“Every vote that was cast will be counted,” Ignizio said.
Ignizio added that his office has not received any reports of similar issues in other boroughs, and that technicians were currently working on the problem at multiple sites in Queens.
A video circulating on social media Tuesday morning purported to show ballots being separated out after a machine failure at PS 164 in Kew Gardens.
Various other accounts posted similar reports of ballots in various Queens neighborhoods — including Rego Park, Ridgewood, and Long Island City — being rejected by the scanners multiple times before votes were ultimately recorded.