Voters cast their ballots at the Rummel Creek Elementary polling place on November 6, 2018 in Houston, Texas. Voters visited polling places around Texas on Election Day to cast their ballots in the midterms. Loren Elliott/Getty Images/AFP
ATLANTA:
Reports of broken ballot scanners are leading to long lines at several polling sites across New York City.
Turnout was so heavy Tuesday morning at one packed precinct on Manhattan's Upper West Side that the line to scan ballots stretched around a junior high school gym.
Poll workers told voters that two of the roughly half-dozen scanners were malfunctioning.
In Brooklyn, voters arriving at two separate polling stations discovered that most scanners had broken down.
Veronica Vela said half of the scanners were broken at one of the polling sites in Crown Heights and waited two hours to vote. By that time, none of the machines were working.
Vela said she was forced to drop her ballot in an "emergency ballot box."
