One polling place in Queens didn't just have broken machines to worry about, they also had a broken pipe that was flooding voting rooms, according to WNYC.
On the Upper East Side, voters complained that the print on the new paper ballot was too small, and voters said the process was confusing. "They didn’t tell me to fill anything in," one voter told WNYC. "It’s ridiculous. I have a Ph.D. And they said, 'Oh, you didn’t do it right.' "
In Flushing, Alice Wong, a poll worker at Public School 20 pointed to the scanners that started malfunctioning after one hour of use and told City Room, "Sometimes it scans, sometimes it doesn’t."
In Pelham, the machines were out of service about two and a half hours because some of the paper had some glue on the back, which caused the machines to malfunction.
At a polling site on the Upper West Side, the line of people waiting to scan their ballots was about half an hour long, because one of two scanning machines went on the fritz. And the one machine that worked kept flashing "a worrisome error message" for every ballot scanned.
Perhaps the biggest problem of all? In an interview with AP, a Board of Elections spokesperson believes "the reports of problems were at a typical level, no different from what was experienced with the lever machines." Funny, we don't seem to recall polling places in NYC opening hours late and turning voters away before this.
And, last but not least, Chuck Schumer was reportedly furious about delays at a polling place in Park Slope, and yelled at befuddled workers, "I want to vote!" We can't wait to hear more about that at his next Sunday press conference.

Luckily, most of the electorate is comprised of apathetic rubes (or disenchanted independent voters!) who couldn't be bothered to participate in the democratic process; turnout was light yesterday, with an estimated 10 percent of registered voters casting ballots. It'll be fun to see how this all works during the general election! Below, a hilarious/dismaying video, via The Daily Politics, of a poll worker turning voters away because the voting machines... were missing.