Data entry error led to Jared Kushner to be registered as a female voter in New York

When Jared Kushner registered to vote in New York City in 2009, he was apparently listed as a female, thanks to a database error.

As Wired first reported Wednesday, public records held by the New York State Board of Elections show that the man married to the president’s daughter, Ivanka, identified his gender as female when registering to vote. The error was first spotted by American Bridge, a Democratic opposition research group.

“Kushner can’t even fill out the most basic paperwork without screwing it up, so it’s a mystery why anyone thinks he’s somehow going to bring peace to the Middle East,” Brad Bainum, a spokesperson for American Bridge, explained to Wired. “Would anyone but the president’s son-in-law still have a West Wing job after repeated disclosure errors and a botched a security clearance form?”

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At first it was unclear how Kushner’s voting registration gender blunder occurred. However, after the news of the error became public, New York City Board of Elections executive director Michael Ryan told the New York Daily News Kushner did in fact check off “male” as his gender and it was a data entry error on the board’s end.

“It does happen from time to time,” Ryan told the Daily News. “I wouldn’t call it a common occurrence.”

The New York City Board of Elections did not respond to Global News’ requests for comment.

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Kushner serves as an adviser to Trump and has been tasked with brokering a Middle East peace deal. His handling of paperwork had been called into question in the past after failing to disclose foreign contacts on his security clearance form. Among the omissions were meetings Kushner had with Russians during Trump’s campaign and transition into the White House.

Kushner went on to testify before the Senate intelligence committee that he “did not collude” with the Russians.

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In July, Trump’s son-in-law was forced to revise paperwork that disclosed his personal finances after inadvertently omitting more than 70 assets worth at least $10.6 million.

Earlier this week, Kushner came under fire for using a private email account to conduct official government business, a practice which Trump hammered Hillary Clinton for during the presidential campaign.

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After the election, Trump claimed there was widespread voter fraud and people had voted illegally, resulting in him losing the popular vote.

Despite winning the election, Trump commissioned a task force to investigate the alleged voter fraud.