Lest you think that electronic voting machines are the only devices subject to outside interference, the losing candidates for trustee of the Village of Brewster think someone prevented their election.
Jeffrey Rollins and John “Jack” Ciesielski lost to the incumbents by more than 100 votes each, including recently counted absentee ballots. But because the two voting machines used in the village were improperly assembled — voters were unable to select an incumbent and a challenger appearing in the same column, they are questioning whether the results would have been different. County election officials maintain that the outcome would have remained the same.