The Board of Elections identified a problem occurring at some election sites in Queens on Tuesday.

At PS 164 in Flushing, voters reported problems scanning their ballots. We are told that the machines would spit out the paper ballots and that voters found themselves, in some cases, handing in paper ballots.

The Board of Elections says an emergency trash can was used. It’s unclear exactly how long this lasted, but the board says every vote will be counted.

The BOE issued a statement saying “technicians were immediately dispatched and corrective action was taken. With an abundance of caution, we had all 290 locations in Queens inspected.”

Voters were not impacted beyond additional attempts to scan their ballot or place it in the emergency trash can, as required by protocol, the BOE said.

At PS 36 in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, Eyewitness News found a steady line of voters Tuesday morning, but that line, we were told, wasn’t moving that early when the site opened for the first time.

An election official tells us one of the computer tablets was not set up correctly for early voting. A technician had to be sent by the Board of Elections to resolve the problem. But employees at the site say it was a problem for about an hour and a half because they were unable to “serve voters.”