7 Days Later: Still No Election Results from the Westchester County Board of Elections

Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins is calling for an investigation into the election system.It’s been a week since the election and results from the Westchester County election are still not final. A computer error prevented the electronic scanning of thousands of ballots. Instead they were placed in envelopes at polling places and trucked to the Westchester County Board of Elections in Ardsley with police escorts.

The “unofficial results,” posted here, indicate that about 340,000 votes have been counted. But we have no way of knowing the total number of ballots to be counted. What about the mail in ballots? Little information is available. Take a look at the interim results at this link.

Though the Board of Elections does not report to Westchester County Government, County Executive Ken Jenkins is calling for an investigation of what went wrong and how another misstep can be prevented in the future.

Here is a statement from Ken Jenkins dated November 10, 2026:

“Days might have passed, however what happened on Election Day in Westchester County remains completely unacceptable. 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.”