MOUNT VERNON, NY — Conspiracy theories are beginning to fly in Westchester over broken-down ballot-counting machines at area polling places.
A man who said he used to run elections as a former city clerk cast doubt on whether the Election Day snafu is simply due to a “glitch,” as Gov. Kathy Hochul said earlier, and described the backup system he’s seeing for casting ballots.
“You couldn’t cast the ballot in the machine,” George Brown, 77 told The Post at the Doles Rec Center polling place in Mount Vernon.
“You had to fold it and put it in a bag, and from there it goes to the Board of Elections.
“It makes me think that someone with big money had something to do with this,” Brown speculated.
“I’ve seen issues with polling places, but never the whole county. It didn’t stop me from voting, though. As long as I can vote, I don’t care how I vote. The inconvenience is all part of the game.”