{"id":1292031,"date":"2023-05-21T17:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/isolated-event-again-all-voters-of-new-york-county-falsely-identified-as-democrats-in-voter-ids\/1292031\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T17:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:10:18","slug":"isolated-event-again-all-voters-of-new-york-county-falsely-identified-as-democrats-in-voter-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/isolated-event-again-all-voters-of-new-york-county-falsely-identified-as-democrats-in-voter-ids\/1292031\/","title":{"rendered":"“Isolated Event” Again? All Voters Of New York County Falsely Identified As Democrats In Voter IDs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Isolated Event” Again? All Voters Of New York County Falsely Identified As Democrats In Voter IDs<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Naveen Anthrapully via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

All voters of Nassau County, New York, were identified as Democrats on their voter ID cards irrespective of political affiliation due to a botch-up by a printing company, triggering accusations about \u201csabotaging elections\u201d ahead of the upcoming primaries.<\/p>\n

The primaries are scheduled for June. Voters of the county, amounting to nearly a million, began to receive their voter ID cards on Tuesday, with voters supporting Republicans, Independents, or another political party surprised to see themselves identified as Democrats in the cards, according to\u00a0NBC<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re already starting to get phone calls from people, saying \u2018I\u2019m a registered Republican, I\u2019m a registered Conservative\u2014how come I\u2019m being identified as a Democrat? Who changed my registration?\u2019 And they\u2019re quite upset about it,\u201d said Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of confusion, there\u2019s a lot of people emotionally upset about this,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>he added. Blakeman, a Republican, is pinning the blame on Rochester-based Phoenix Graphics, the printing company hired by Nassau County\u2019s Board of Elections to print the voter ID cards.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The printing company called it an \u201cisolated event\u201d that was the result of a human error.<\/strong> \u201cWe apologize for our mistake, especially to Nassau County officials, who bear no responsibility for this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, this is not the first time that Phoenix Graphics has committed such a mistake. In 2020, Phoenix messed up absentee ballots for 99,000 voters in Brooklyn. The printing firm had erroneously sent mailings to voters containing return envelopes having the names and addresses of other people.<\/p>\n

The campaign for Kari Lake (R-Ariz.), who is running for the post of Arizona Governor, slammed the incident.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA \u2018printing error\u2019 in Nassau County, N.Y. led to every voter in that county being listed as a Democrat. There\u2019s that word again. \u2018Printer error.\u2019 This is just their blanket excuse for sabotaging elections and hoping nobody calls them on it,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>the campaign said in a May 21\u00a0tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since New York is a closed primary state, voters registered as belonging to a party are not allowed to vote for any other party. As such, if a GOP supporter is identified as Democrat in the voter registration system, the individual would be barred from casting votes for the Republican primary.<\/p>\n

Trust in Elections<\/h2>\n

Out of the 972,000 voters in the county, Democrats account for around 40 percent. At a press conference, Blakeman ruled out partisanship as a cause for the mishap and said that the county is investigating the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think the Democratic Party is engaged in a conspiracy to create havoc in their own primaries. I don\u2019t think the Democratic Party wants a bunch of Republicans showing up to vote in their primaries,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Blakeman, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n

However, some voters are now questioning the election process due to the typo error. \u201cI have no faith in this country today, as far as what the politics are,\u201d said George Klein, a voter from Nassau. \u201cI\u2019m going to vote Republican primary day, and Democrat on that is not going to affect it,\u201d he said referring to the erroneous ID card he received.<\/p>\n

During the 2022 midterms, only 56 percent of Republicans thought the elections will be administered \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d well, according to Pew Research.<\/p>\n

Accurate Voter ID Cards<\/h2>\n

According to Phoenix Graphics, they are correcting the error and will send out new and accurate voter ID cards soon without any additional cost to taxpayers.<\/p>\n

Democratic County Election Commissioner Jim Scheuerman told the New York Post that Phoenix will be paying around $300,000 required to resend the correct registration cards to the county\u2019s voters.<\/p>\n

Phoenix was contracted more than ten years ago via a sealed-bid process. Officials with Nassau County\u2019s Board of Elections are reportedly not ruling out considering other vendors to ensure that the recent mistake doesn\u2019t occur again, according to Fox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 05\/21\/2023 – 19:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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