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Westchester voting machines kept rejecting ballots; barcode error blamed

Voting machines across Westchester County repeatedly returned ballots on Election Day; officials initially blamed the paper but later traced the problem to a barcode error, leaving up to 250,000 ballots in emergency bags awaiting counting.

Published Nov 3, 2026, 5:53 PM EST | LehighValleyLive

Voters in one New York county got a strange surprise on Election Day. Voting machines across Westchester County, just north of New York City, kept spitting their ballots back out on Tuesday, Nov. 3, Türkiye Today reported.

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