“HOPEFULLY” Ballots Get to Board of Elections — NY Voting Machines REJECT Ballots Across Westchester County — How Did They Pass Pre-Election Testing?!

The elections supervisor for the town of Eastchester, New York, Anthony Colavita, has issued a statement following local and countywide issues with voting machines for the midterm election.

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Westchester County, NY, is having countywide issues with its voting machines and is attributing the errors to the paper the ballots are printed on.

In its official statement, Westchester County stated:

The Westchester County Board of Elections (BOE) is aware of an issue involving paper ballots that is preventing voting machines from accepting ballots at polling locations throughout the County.  The Westchester Board of Elections wants to reassure every voter that your vote matters, your ballot will be secure and your vote will be counted.

The Board of Elections is in constant communication with New York State officials, Westchester County Government and poll workers to address this issue and ensure that voting continues with as little disruption as possible. In the meantime, voters should continue to complete their paper ballots as instructed by poll workers. Ballots will be placed in designated orange emergency ballot bags, which will remain secure and monitored. These ballots will subsequently be counted in accordance with applicable election procedures.

While the Westchester County explanation is rather vague, the elections supervisor for the Town of Eastchester gave more information.  In a statement posted to social media, Colavita stated:

“Apparently, the paper that the Board of Elections chose to use is not compatible with the machines that the paper ballots are fed into.  I don’t know how this happened, or how it wasn’t checked ahead of time.  But not withstanding that, we are asking all Eastchester, Tuckahoe, and Bronxville voters to still go to the polls, not withstanding.

Remember, when you get to the polling location, please sign in, so we have checks and balances on the number of people that are voting.  Cast your vote on paper and be sure that your vote is placed securely into the orange bags, which hopefully will make their way to the Board of Elections.

It is important that, even though we have a computer glitch, that this work out and that everyone come out to vote.  Will there be a line?  Probably not, because its moving along pretty quickly.”

This is eerily similar to the “Drawer #3” and the 19-inch ballot issue in Maricopa County in the November 2022 midterm election in which Katie Hobbs “defeated” Kari Lake in the governor’s race.

And telling voters that “hopefully” their ballots make their way to the Board of Elections is a brutally honest choice of words.

But more concerning is exactly what Colavita points out:  How was this not checked ahead of time?

Election officials are tasked with running pre-election checks called “logic and accuracy” testing (L&A testing).  Westchester County is no exception to this procedure.

In fact, Westchester County was scheduled to begin its L&A testing on October 7, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., according to a public notice.

According to the notice:

“The inspection and pre-election testing will take place October 7, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. and will take place at 450 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, NY 10502, where the county test decks will be run and machines may be viewed.  Pre-election testing will continue daily, 10:00 A.M., until all pre-election testing has been completed.

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Can someone explain to me how these machines passed Logic and Accuracy testing if the ballots were printed on the wrong paper?

Or, does this just confirm what we’ve said all along: logic and accuracy testing is simply a fake process designed to give voters a false sense of security.

— CannCon (@canncon) November 3, 2026

Several questions remain to be answered:  How did these voting machines pass L&A testing if the ballots are printed on the wrong paper that cannot be accepted by the Liberty Vote (formerly Dominion Voting) tabulators?  And how does the county’s printer, Phoenix Graphics, a Rochester-based company that purports to be “New York’s largest supplier of ballot materials” that serves 46 counties not know which paper can properly be read by the Liberty Vote tabulators?