Voting machines across the city were plagued by scanning glitches on Tuesday, outraging New Yorkers who fear their mayoral votes won’t be properly counted.
Many of the city’s “optical-scan” voting machines were reported broken — or simply would not boot up — on Tuesday morning, forcing voters to toss paper ballots into overflowing baskets, according to frustrated Twitter posts.
Voting in #NYC remains a mess. Full paper ballots today, no machines or scanners.
— Eric Johnson (@EricJohnsonFilm) November 5, 2013
Other voters reported the machines were chock full of other annoying tech glitches, prompting some people to leave without casting a ballot.
New Yorkers — many of whom reported broken voting machines in Brooklyn — said it was that shocking so many scanners had stopped working so early in the day.
voting this morning in fort greene was quick & easy but 3!!! scanners broken by 8:30 am?? not okay
— jenna rosen (@jennarosen) November 5, 2013
Machines were reported broken in neighborhoods including Fort Greene, Downtown Brooklyn and Astoria.
