One week after the election the Westchester County Board of Elections (WBOE) issued a statement late Monday afternoon (Tuesday, November 10, 2026) that “the scanning of all emergency ballots cast on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2026, has been completed.”
The WBOE’s an 11-sentence announcement contained little information beyond the emergency ballots being counted. It said the board has now “transitioned to its regularly scheduled post-election activities” and somewhat comically said, “further updates will be provided as additional information becomes available.”
Just three hours prior to the Board of Elections telling the public they finally got finished counting things, Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins – through the same county communications team – put out a statement about his own frustrations around election day failures using words like “completely unacceptable” and “debacle”.
Jenkins said he would convene a bipartisan review to examine the debacle following the official certification of election results.
“Days might have passed, however what happened on Election Day in Westchester County remains completely unacceptable,” said Jenkins in a statement. “We are a County of more than one million residents, and voters deserve to have complete confidence in the integrity, security and reliability of our election system. Following the official certification of the election results, I will convene a bipartisan review to thoroughly examine the decisions, actions and failures that led to this debacle. This review will focus on determining what went wrong, where accountability lies and what steps must be taken to ensure that a failure of this magnitude never happens again.
While the Board of Elections does not report to me, my responsibility is to look out for the people of Westchester County, and I share their anger and frustration over what occurred. That is also why on Election Day, I directed County officials, including representatives from our Law Department, to monitor the voting process to help ensure that every voter could cast a ballot without interference and that every vote would be properly and accurately counted. This is not about politics or pointing fingers. It is about accountability, transparency and ensuring public confidence in our election process. The voters deserve answers, but, and maybe more importantly, they deserve better and I intend to make sure they get it.”
