🗞️ Story file #1408
Ballot scanning issues reported in New York House district
Nov 4, 2 PM ET to Nov 4, 10 PM ET
- 12outlets carried it
- 🫏2 · 1 · 9🐘left · center · right
- 8 hourson the front pages
- 12front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 minof TV captions
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
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Axios 
Yahoo News 
News Nation 
The Epoch Times 
New York Post 
PJ Media 
Red State 
The Daily Signal 
The Daily Wire 
The National Desk 
The Western Journal 
Townhall
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- Nov 4, 2 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
- Nov 4, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 Quoted
- “Ballot Scanning Issues”1
- “thickness”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Machine politics Key NY House race thrown into chaos over bizarre issue with voting machine glitch” → “A highly contentious New York State race under watch by the entire nation has been plunged into chaos over voting ballot “thickness” — an issue that could mean the winner won’t be known for days.”
📰 Every outlet's headline 12left to right by AllSides rating
- Axios🕒 Nov 3, 11 AM ET
Voting machine chaos hits key House battleground
- Yahoo News🕒 Nov 3, 11 AM ET
Ballot counting issues reported in key New York swing district
- News Nation🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET
New York AG says office monitoring ballot scanning issue in Westchester
- The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 3, 6 PM ET
Barcode Error in New York Causes Scanners to Reject Ballots in Key House Race
- New York Post🕒 Nov 3, 8 PM ET
Machine politics Key NY House race thrown into chaos over bizarre issue with voting machine glitch
- PJ Media🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET
And So It Begins: Voting Machines Are Not Working in a Key GOP District
- Red State🕒 Nov 3, 4 PM ET
Election Day Fiasco in NY Battleground Gets Worse As Officials Reveal Stunning Ballot Blunder
- The Daily Signal🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET
Ballot Scanner Problems Hit Heart of Key Battleground House District on Election Day
- The Daily Wire🕒 Nov 3, 1 PM ET
Ballot Scanners Fail In Crucial House Race, Votes Forced Into Orange Bags
- The National Desk🕒 Nov 3, 3 PM ET
NY attorney general's office is monitoring ballot scanning issue in Westchester: James
- The Western Journal🕒 Nov 3, 10 AM ET
Widespread 'Ballot Scanning Issues' Reported in Competitive New York House District
- Townhall🕒 Nov 3, 8 PM ET
Software Update Caused Voting Machine Mayhem in This GOP District
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📻 On the radio
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📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.
🎙️ On the shows
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🕵️ Investigated, joked about
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🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.
🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
New YorkWestchesterNew York State Attorney GeneralHouse of Representatives
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
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🧵 Ballot scanning issues in New York
Ballot scanners in Westchester County fail to read paper ballots
Nov 3, 10 AM ET
Ballot scanning issues reported in New York House district (this story)
Nov 4, 2 PM ET