{"id":580,"date":"2025-11-11T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/?p=580"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:32:59","slug":"man-commits-suicide-after-realizing-he-voted-for-mamdani-by-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/2025\/11\/man-commits-suicide-after-realizing-he-voted-for-mamdani-by-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Commits Suicide After Realizing He Voted for Mamdani by Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New York \u2014 Tragic Voting Blunder Ends in DespairDavid Goldstein, a 65-year-old Jewish man from Brooklyn, took his own life Tuesday.<br>He discovered too late that he voted for Zohran Kwame Mamdani in the mayoral race.<br>Goldstein hated Mamdani&#8217;s stances on Israel and progressive taxes for years.<br>However, last week at a polling site in Midwood, he marked the wrong box.<br>After that, he logged into the <a class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1g4g62n r-yn5ncy r-clrlgt r-nvplwv r-1nao33i r-m71pgl r-1ddef8g r-1loqt21\" href=\"https:\/\/vote.nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York City Board of Elections portal<\/a> to confirm.<br>The error crushed him immediately.<br>Therefore, alone in his apartment, he ended it all with pills.<br>Meanwhile, officers from the NYPD&#8217;s 70th Precinct ruled it a clear suicide.<br>Friends nodded sadly; such regrets happen often in heated elections like this one.<br>For details on Mamdani&#8217;s win, see his <a class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1g4g62n r-yn5ncy r-clrlgt r-nvplwv r-1nao33i r-m71pgl r-1ddef8g r-1loqt21\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zohran_Mamdani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York \u2014 Tragic Voting Blunder Ends in DespairDavid Goldstein, a 65-year-old Jewish man from Brooklyn, took his own life Tuesday.He discovered too late that he voted for Zohran Kwame Mamdani in the mayoral race.Goldstein hated Mamdani&#8217;s stances on Israel and progressive taxes for years.However, last week at a polling site in Midwood, he marked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[93,94],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-mamdani","tag-newyork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}