No One Votes In LI Ambulance Election — Including Its Own Members

PORT JEFFERSON, NY — It was a strange election that seemingly no one knew about, as not a single vote was cast.

A proposal to decide to change the retirement age and increase pensions for volunteers of the Tri-Harbor Ambulance District, which includes about 20,000 residents in Port Jefferson, Belle Terre, and Mount Sinai, failed at the ballot box after no one voted, WSHU Public Radio first reported.

District officials sought to lower the retirement age for first responders from 65 to 60 years old, and to increase their pensions by $30 for every year of service, the outlet reported.

Ambulance district resident Skyler Johnson, who is running for state Senate as a Democrat, told The New York Post he did not see any signs advertising the vote.

"I did not see a single piece of literature on the referendum. I don’t believe anyone in the district had an ounce of information that this election was happening,” he told the outlet.

Now the matter has been bumped back to the Brookhaven Town Board's members to decide whether to authorize another election, according to WSHU.

Councilwoman Jane Bonner, who does not live in the district, but represents a portion of it, told The Post that in her political career, she had never come across an election without voters.

“What was surprising to all of us is that not even any of their own members voted,” Bonner said of the ambulance district's leadership.

Similar measures passed in other ambulance districts across town, The Post reported