On Election Day, November 3, 2014, voters in Westchester County, New York, found that the county’s voting machines failed to scan up to 250,000 ballots at 332 polling stations across more than 40 municipalities, according to County Executive Ken Jenkins’s statement to CNN.
Jenkins confirmed that, although the machines were non‑functional, officials assured residents that all voters would be able to cast ballots using backup manual procedures and that the affected ballots would be placed in ballot boxes and counted later following established procedures.
While the incident exposed a technical vulnerability in the county’s election infrastructure, later reports have not provided additional details on the resolution timeline or whether any votes were ultimately miscounted. The unconfirmed aspects include the long‑term impact on the vote totals and whether any automated audit of the scanned ballots will occur.
