New York updates voter records to show Mike Beltran did not vote there last year

New York City has updated its election records after determining Florida congressional candidate Mike Beltran did not vote there last year.

That comes as Beltran, a Hillsborough Republican, threatens to sue influencer Laura Loomer, who reported Beltran had been registered to vote in both New York and Florida.

Loomer alleged, based on city voting records, that Beltran cast a vote last year. But he always maintained that his father, Michael R. Beltran, voted and poll workers mistakenly marked his name instead. Records had shown Michael R. Beltran had not voted in November.

Now, the New York City Board of Elections has updated records to align with the younger Beltran’s explanation. He did not vote in November according to updated records, but his father did. Beltran provided Florida Politics with updated records.

“I’d add that everybody received that updated record over a week ago, and despite Loomer saying she would correct the article when NYC updates its records, they now explicitly refuse to do so,” Beltran said.

Beltran is currently running in a Republican Primary in Florida’s 14th Congressional District. He has not yet sued Loomer. After Beltran initially provided a sworn affidavit from his father that he had voted in November, Loomer did update her original post with an editor’s note.

“This article contains a record from the NYC Board of Elections showing that Mike Beltran voted in the November 2025 New York City elections. On July 13th, 2026, we received a document, purportedly from Mike Beltran’s father, also named Mike Beltran, claiming that he voted in the November 2025 election, not his son, and that the record of his son voting in the November 2025 New York City election was created in error,” the note reads.

“We will update this article if the New York City Board of Elections confirms that as the case. Both father and son are active registered voters in NYC as of July 13th, 2026.”

It has not been updated to reflect the change to records by New York officials.

Beltran, for his part, said he has not voted in New York since moving to Florida and registering to vote here in 2010, and records now reflect as much. He previously said he believed Florida had informed New York when he registered to vote in the Sunshine State, and that New York officials should have dropped him from the voter rolls there at the time. He is no longer listed as a voter by the New York State Board of Elections.

Alex Andrade, Loomer’s attorney, said Loomer has adequately addressed the dispute in records.

“I haven’t confirmed if the docs Beltran claims have been verified yet,” Andrade said. “It’s odd to me that Beltran keeps highlighting the fact that he was a registered voter in NYC until July 2026. Ms. Loomer has already added an editorial note and updated the article itself. Beltran’s continued fixation at this point is a little confounding.”