00:00Well, good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for being here.
00:04Obviously a big day today, election day, and certainly we want everybody to get out and vote
00:11and exercise their right to participate in today's election.
00:17There's been a lot of frustration with what has happened in Westchester County since 6 a.m. this morning,
00:25causing a lot of frustration, delays, lines, and, you know, a lot of questions.
00:34We have been in touch with the Board of Elections since 6 a.m. this morning
00:39as this very quickly got to us that there was a problem,
00:46and we've been working in a bipartisan way, Republicans and Democrats,
00:51both campaigns, both state parties, both national committees to come to a solution
00:58working with the Westchester County Board of Elections and the State Board of Elections.
01:04And number one, everybody who is online should stay online, should vote.
01:11Do not leave the polling place without voting.
01:14Every vote is going to be counted, and it's going to be counted tonight.
01:19We are close to finalizing an agreement between both sides to go to the court
01:25and present to a judge for a sign-off.
01:30But effectively, the ADA-compliant voting machines are being set up at every polling place.
01:38Once they are set up, everybody who is voting will be able to put their ballot,
01:44scan their ballot into the ADA-compliant machine, at which point it will be counted on the machine
01:51with the stick that will be transmitted to the Board of Elections after 9 p.m. tonight.
01:58All of the ballots that have been cast already that are in the emergency orange bag
02:05will be transported from the polling site after 9 p.m. by police escort
02:11to a central location at the Board of Elections to be counted at the Board of Elections.
02:19Those ballots will not be opened at the polling site.
02:22They will be opened at the Board of Elections, where attorneys from both campaigns will be,
02:27where both parties will have representation, so that there be no question,
02:32that there be no conspiracy theory, and that every vote is counted.
02:38To me, that is paramount.
02:40No matter the outcome, every vote should be counted,
02:43and that is what is going to happen, and it's going to happen tonight,
02:47and we are going to make sure one way or the other we have an answer as to the results
02:53tonight.
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