Nassau plan to speed up election results didn't pan out, Dem commissioner says

The Nassau County Board of Elections' experiment with uploading memory sticks from polling sites to speed up election night tallies didn’t pan out, Democratic Commissioner James Scheuerman said shortly before 1 a.m. as results were still not counted for all precincts.

“It just didn’t work out the way it was supposed to,” Scheuerman said. Pre-election day testing hadn’t been up to the scale of hundreds of memory stick results coming in at the same time, he said.

While the software was processing the uploads they couldn’t update the website, he said.

Also, after midnight, the board of elections was going to paper receipts from some voting machines because some memory sticks were missing, Scheuerman said.