‘You all saw it’: Voter calls Zohran Mamdani to ‘jump queue’ at New York early voting site | WATCH | Today’s news
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was accused of disrupting a line at an early voting location on Saturday morning, October 24, after a voter complained that the mayor had sped past to reach the polling place.
A video of the incident shows a man waiting in line as Mamdani, accompanied by a bodyguard, walks ahead of him towards the polling station. The man can be heard protesting the apparent bypassing of the queue, leading to a tense exchange with the mayor’s security.
“Why does he have to cut me?” the man shouted as Mamdani proceeded to vote.
While the mayor cast his vote, his bodyguard stood next to the voter who continued to complain about the incident.
“The mayor just cut me, you saw it,” the man told the bodyguard.
“He cut me, you all saw it,” he added, turning to the other voters waiting in line.
The footage does not determine whether Mamdani was formally directed to a particular polling station or whether the incident involved a dispute over which polling station was available.
(Video courtesy of hereswhykevin/Instagram)
What Zohran Mamdani said after the vote
Mamdani appeared to brush off the incident when he spoke to reporters after the vote and joked about his experience in the polling booth.
“I voted early. I was labeled a communist only once. I got in and out,” he said.
The reporter then directly asked the mayor if he cut the line.
“But did you cut him? That was the question,” the reporter asked.
Mamdani laughingly replied that the voter wanted to use a particular booth.
“He wanted to wait for … there were two open, he wanted this one,” the mayor said.
His response seemed to suggest that the disagreement was related to the availability of polling stations rather than simply the order in which voters waited. However, the exchange as described does not independently establish what happened before Mamdani entered the cabin.
