According to a MyRye.com estimate based on various county sources, it’s possible only 17% of Election Day ballots have been counted so far, nearly two full days after polls closed Tuesday evening. The estimate was made using the small amount of information available, as the Westchester County Board of Elections (WBOE) has left residents and local media in an information vacuum.
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Another day has come and gone and election day ballots are still being counted in Westchester. It was crickets all day from the WBOE until about 5:30 pm on Thursday, when they sent out yet another dissatisfying and information-sparse update.
If we remove all the previously stated information, here are the kernels and nuggets of what’s new. Don’t get too excited…
The Westchester County Board of Elections reports the following preliminary figures:
- Emergency Ballots Scanned on Wednesday, November 4th: 15,467
- Emergency Ballots Scanned on Thursday, November 5th, as of 1:30 p.m.: 11,462
That’s 26,929 ballots scanned in the 40.5 hours since the polls closed Tuesday evening at 9 p.m. (9 p.m. Tuesday until 1:30pm Thursday – the cut off for the ballot count above).
One county official told MyRye.com that it was reasonable to expect there would be approximately 160,000 ballots to be counted from Election Day voting. If this is in the zone of being correct, that would mean only 17% of Election Day ballots have been counted, nearly two full days after polls have closed.
