New York voters in Long Island’s Nassau County were stunned last week after every one of them discovered they were Democrats — even those who aren’t.
On Tuesday, voters in the county received voter information cards by mail containing details about the upcoming primaries, including the assigned voting location and the eligible primary based on party enrollment.
However, according to WNBC-TV, in this Republican-leaning county, all voters were mistakenly marked as Democrats on the cards. The mistake affected approximately 500,000 voters, the outlet reported.
“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,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman told the outlet.
“There’s a lot of confusion, there’s a lot of people emotionally upset about this,” he said, CBS News added. “We believe that this is an