The NYC Board of Elections is sending out technicians to polling sites across Queens Tuesday after reports that machines at several locations have been rejecting ballots.
Vinnie Ignizio, BOE’s deputy executive director, confirmed to the Daily News that some scanners in the borough have been “kicking ballots out,” requiring them to be scanned multiple times for votes to be recorded.
Ignizio said that the machines were eventually registering votes, and that, if ballots were outright rejected by the scanners, they would simply 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.
