ICYMI: In Nassau County, New York, a printer error led to confusion among registered voters. The printer mistakenly labeled over 972,000 voter registration cards as Democrat, causing frustration among many Conservatives in the county. Despite Republicans making up over 60% of registered voters in Nassau County, the mistake did not affect their party affiliation.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman told NBC 4 News “We’re already starting to get phone calls from people, saying ‘I’m a registered Republican, I’m a registered Conservative – how come I’m being identified as a Democrat? Who changed my registration?’ And they’re quite upset about it.”
According to Blakeman, the printing company Phoenix Graphics is responsible for the mistake in the registration cards. Phoenix Graphics acknowledged in a comment that a human error caused the problem with the printing and they will be sending out new registration cards.
According to the New York Post,
An upstate printer has once again screwed up downstate election materials, this time by mailing registration cards to Nassau County’s nearly 1 million voters — identifying them all as Democrats.
Democrats make up about 40 percent of the county’s 972,000 voters, according to state Board of Election records from February.
Blakeman ruled out partisanship as a likely cause of the mistake but said the county is investigating what did happen.
This week’s flub by the Rochester-based Phoenix Graphics comes two years after the company messed up absentee ballots for 100,000 Brooklynites shortly before the 2020 election, prompting outrage from voters concerned about whether their votes would count. The mistake extended into Nassau County as well, where nearly 800 people also received botched ballots.
Phoenix Graphics has previously made a mistake with election materials. As per reports in 2020, they mislabeled “official absentee ballot envelopes” meant for residents of Queens and Brooklyn.
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