Polls Glitch in NC, Massachusetts, New York

Westchester County, New York, scanners quit accepting votes after they failed when polls opened at 6 a.m. So voters were told to keep filling out paper ballots, which go into orange emergency bags to be counted later. Paper, the technology that never needed a software update, is now the backup plan. My editor would cut that plot as too far-fetched. Machines in four New Bedford, Massachusetts, precincts had problems too, since resolved, per The Hill and WBSM. North Carolina extended hours at five sites in four counties, and Chester County, Pennsylvania, let three precincts stay open an extra 30 minutes after set-up delays. Election integrity is a slogan until the scanners work. Plenty in Washington lecture the rest of us on it. Fewer have ever touched a scanner.