Officials working to post numbers from voting machines that failed

CANTON — St. Lawrence County election officials have opened four of the voting machines that malfunctioned Tuesday and are focusing on counting ballots rather than figuring out what caused them to fail.

“I’m trying to get some results,” Democratic Election Commissioner Jennie H. Morrill said.

The county reported problems with machines in eight districts Tuesday. In some cases, the machines froze and inspectors switched to paper ballots. In others, the machines wouldn’t print out results when inspectors tried to close the polls at the end of voting.

“I hope by the end of the day to post results,” Ms. Morrill said Thursday afternoon.