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Duval Poll Workers Stationed At Misprinted Incorrect Polling Location To Direct Voters

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A Duval County election supervisor’s mistake led to more than 4,000 voters in Mandarin being mailed registration cards in September with the wrong address on them.

Poll workers are stationed at the misprinted location Tuesday to direct voters to the correct place.

Most of Jacksonville’s polling places are in privately owned buildings, like churches. When two churches changed ownership this year in Mandarin’s District 602, the county had to find a new polling place twice: once before the August primary and again before the general.

Chief Elections Officer Robert Phillips says in September, registration cards were mistakenly mailed to the precinct’s 4,300 voters that still contained the location from the August primary.

“I made a mistake,” Phillips said.

After he realized the error, he says, he mailed out new cards in September with the correct location: River City Science Academy at 10911Old St. Augustine Road. The correct address was also printed on sample ballots sent out in that precinct, and the location is correct, as of Tuesday, on the election supervisor’s website. 

Jessica Palombo oversees local news at WJCT News 89.9 and Jacksonville Today. With a master’s degree in broadcast and digital journalism from Syracuse University and bachelor's in journalism from the University of Florida, Jessica is a nearly lifelong resident of Jacksonville. You may have once seen her on a local community theater stage. These days, you can most likely catch her reading a book in a school pickup line.