NY voters’ no-scan-do Midturmoil

Election Day was a rain-soaked nightmare Tuesday for thousands of New York voters — as they endured monster lines, late pollingplace openings and rampant scanning-machine malfunctions.

In response, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson called for the ouster of Board of Elections Executive Director Michael Ryan.

“Michael Ryan should resign & we should begin a top-to-bottom review of how this happened,” Johnson tweeted.

Ryan declined to answer the call for him to go, saying “there is plenty of opportunity after the election to assess all things Board of Election-related.”

Ryan blamed the snafus in part on wet ballots jamming machines — but claimed one upside to the delays.

“When a lot of people show up at the poll sites, it’s a sign of a healthy and robust democracy,” he told The Post. “Now, certainly, we want to process them through as quickly as we can, but in this election, we had a few firsts,” including, two-page ballots and ballots perforated on both edges.

Whatever the explanation, voters and poll workers had to deal with the fallout.

“It was an absolute madhouse,” said Michelle Marbury, a polling place coordinator at Harry S. Truman HS in The Bronx, where all four vote scanners failed for nearly four hours, leaving hundreds of ballots filled out but un-

tabulated. Poll workers went into “emergency mode,” piling the mountain of ballots into a box to be hand-counted later, said Marbury, who blamed the fiasco on notoriously balky scanners and two-page ballots which overstuffed the temperamental machines.

“It was like a bomb waiting to go off,” she said.

At the Brooklyn Public Library main branch in Prospect Heights, one of two scanners was down all day, creating a bottleneck for the other — which failed in the early afternoon.

And in The Bronx, voters at the library stuffed some ballots into collection boxes, with an NYPD officer serving as witness.

At the Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side, where all three scanners crashed simultaneously for at least an hour, one woman’s ballot was spit back by a machine.

“I voted twice and it hasn’t worked twice,” she fumed. “I guess they don’t want my vote.”

Seemingly endless lines were common throughout Brooklyn, including at Middle School 51 in Park Slope, where more than 100 voters waited to receive, fill out, and cast their ballots.

The enraged Council Speaker Johnson said that every Election Day was like the movie “Groundhog Day” with recurring “long lines, polling site issues, huge problems,” he tweeted. “Now we’re blaming the weather? It’s unacceptable & unfair to voters.”