US midterm voting issues: New York voting machine failures and Florida flooding affect some – video

Voter turnout has surged as Americans cast their ballots in the critical US midterm elections. Although mostly smooth, there have been some voting snags across the country. In Westchester county in New York, voting machines have been unable to scan as many as 250,000 ballots, and manual counting could delay the announcement of results there by several days. Meanwhile, a lack of paper ballots saw voters turned away from some polling stations in Illinois, while heavy rain and flooding forced election officials to relocate some polling places in Florida