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🗞️ Story file #1303

Ballot scanners malfunction in Westchester County

Nov 3, 10 AM ET to Nov 3, 2 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

📰 read it at: Axios Yahoo News Forbes News Nation Scripps News Just the News The Epoch Times Washington Examiner Fox News New York Post Newsmax OAN PJ Media Red State The Daily Signal The Daily Wire The Gateway Pundit The Western Journal Townhall The Washington Sun

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  1. Nov 3, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: Yahoo News
  2. Nov 3, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
  3. Nov 3, 2 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Nov 3, 11 AM12 PM1 PM2 PM1020leftcenterrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 3, 10 AM to Nov 3, 2 PM ET (peak 20), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated
Nov 3, 10 AM11 AM12 PM1 PM2 PMThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Nov 3, 9:01 AM ET: NY County Reports Problems With Ballot ScannersThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Nov 3, 9:01 AM ET: DEVELOPING: Ballot Scanners in Westchester County New York Malfunction – Ballots Being Placed in Orange Bags?The Gateway Pundit, Nov 3, 11:01 AM ET: DEVELOPING: Ballot Scanners Malfunction Across Westchester County, New York – Ballots Being Placed in Orange Bags?The Gateway Pundit, Nov 3, 2:01 PM ET: “HOPEFULLY” Ballots Get to Board of Elections — NY Voting Machines REJECT Ballots Across Westchester County — How Did They Pass Pre-Election Testing?!The Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Nov 3, 10:01 AM ET: Widespread 'Ballot Scanning Issues' Reported in Competitive New York House DistrictYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Nov 3, 10:01 AM ET: Ballot scanners down at most Westchester County, N.Y., polling sites, officials sayYahoo News, Nov 3, 11:01 AM ET: Ballot counting issues reported in key New York swing districtThe Washington SunThe Washington SunThe Washington Sun, Nov 3, 10:01 AM ET: Ballot Scanners Fail Across New York’s Westchester CountyRed StateRed StateRed State, Nov 3, 10:01 AM ET: Here We Go: Voting Machines Go Down in NY County, Ballot Scanners MalfunctionTownhallTownhallTownhall, Nov 3, 10:01 AM ET: Voting Machines Are Not Working in This GOP-Held District. Here's Why They're Acting UpTownhall, Nov 3, 2:01 PM ET: This New York County Is Already Having Problems With Voting MachinesJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Nov 3, 11:01 AM ET: Ballot machines in Westchester County, New York, won't accept paper ballots, officials investigatingOANOne America News NetworkOne America News Network, Nov 3, 11:01 AM ET: Ballot counting machines down in battleground N.Y. countyAxiosAxiosAxios, Nov 3, 11:01 AM ET: Voting machine chaos hits key House battlegroundThe Daily SignalThe Daily SignalThe Daily Signal, Nov 3, 12:02 PM ET: Ballot Scanner Problems Hit Heart of Key Battleground House District on Election DayPJ MediaPJ MediaPJ Media, Nov 3, 12:02 PM ET: And So It Begins: Voting Machines Are Not Working in a Key GOP DistrictNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Nov 3, 12:02 PM ET: New York AG says office monitoring ballot scanning issue in WestchesterWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Nov 3, 12:02 PM ET: Westchester voting machines down leading to delay in Lawler's districtForbesForbesForbes, Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET: Midterm Election Live Updates: NY County Voting Machines Malfunction Amid Close House RaceForbes, Nov 3, 2:01 PM ET: Midterm Election Live Updates: Georgia Turnout Falls Short Of GOP Hopes As NY County Voting Machines MalfunctionNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET: Key NY House race thrown into chaos over bizarre issue with voting ballot ‘thickness’New York Post, Nov 3, 2:01 PM ET: Voters suspicious as ballot machines break down on midterm Election Day in crucial Westchester CountyFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET: Paper ballots in NY county unable to be accepted by voting machines, will still be countedFox News, Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET: Rep Mike Lawler raises alarm as paper ballots rejected across county's polling sitesThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET: Ballot Scanners Fail In Crucial House Race, Votes Forced Into Orange BagsNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET: Rep. Lawler to Newsmax: N.Y. Voting Machine Rejecting BallotsScripps NewsScripps NewsScripps News, Nov 3, 2:01 PM ET: Problem with paper ballots causes delays in New York's Westchester County📺 TVCNN, 10:46 AM ET: THERE ARE NEARLY 150 BALLOTCNN, 11:31 AM ET: MACHINES UNABLE TO SCAN PAPER
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

  1. “Ballot Scanning Issues”1
  2. “HOPEFULLY”1
  3. “thickness”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Forbes (2 wordings): “Midterm Election Live Updates: NY County Voting Machines Malfunction Amid Close House Race” → “Midterm Election Live Updates: Georgia Turnout Falls Short Of GOP Hopes As NY County Voting Machines Malfunction”
  • Fox News (2 wordings): “Paper ballots in NY county unable to be accepted by voting machines, will still be counted” → “Rep Mike Lawler raises alarm as paper ballots rejected across county's polling sites”
  • New York Post (2 wordings): “Key NY House race thrown into chaos over bizarre issue with voting ballot ‘thickness’” → “Voters suspicious as ballot machines break down on midterm Election Day in crucial Westchester County”
  • The Gateway Pundit (3 wordings): “DEVELOPING: Ballot Scanners in Westchester County New York Malfunction – Ballots Being Placed in Orange Bags?” → ““HOPEFULLY” Ballots Get to Board of Elections — NY Voting Machines REJECT Ballots Across Westchester County — How Did They Pass Pre-Election Testing?!”
  • Townhall (2 wordings): “Voting Machines Are Not Working in This GOP-Held District. Here's Why They're Acting Up” → “This New York County Is Already Having Problems With Voting Machines”
  • Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Ballot scanners down at most Westchester County, N.Y., polling sites, officials say” → “Ballot counting issues reported in key New York swing district”
📰 Every outlet's headline 20left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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📺 On TV

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  1. 🫏 CNN 17 s

📻 On the radio

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📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

New York CountyWestchester CountyNew YorkNew York House DistrictBallot Scanners

🔎 Checking

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🧵 Persistence

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🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

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