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Voters in Marion County are upset tonight after getting ID cards with the wrong information.

It's not just a few people. More than 170,000 people got them in the mail this week. “This shouldn't have ever even happened,” Judith Kop, Marion County voter, said.

“Hey! My zip code showed up in another state,” said another voter in Marion County, Tom Schmidt.

These two voters were upset when they received this week their new voter ID cards. A closer look shows that the zip code on one of them is not for Marion County or anywhere else in Florida.

It's the zip code for Arizona, near the Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

Schmidt's card had another mistake, a commission district six race. There is no such race this year.

“There's nothing more important than accurate elections. They're very important. And when I thought that was wrong, I thought, could that kind of error invalidate somebody's vote?” Schmidt said.

Kop was wondering the same thing.

“One of the freedoms and one of the privileges we have is to extend our voting rights. If it's not correct, then my vote doesn't count,” Kop said.

“All of our data is absolutely accurate,” Wesley Wilcox, Marion County Supervisor of Elections, said.

Wilcox says Quality Printing and Mailing of Gainesville mistakenly printed the wrong zip code and commission race number.

A mistake that will have the printer spending $40,000 to reprint and mail 176,000 voter ID cards or about two-thirds of the county's voters. That totals 265,000.

“It will not have any effect on your voter status or any process for early voting or election day or vote by mail, voting activity,” Wilcox said.

WESH 2 News spoke with the printer, Tito Calvo with Quality Printing and Mailing of Gainesville who said: “We made a mistake in the mail merge and information got mixed up. We will make up for this by resending cards at no cost to taxpayers.”

While the voter ID card provides helpful information, it's not required to vote in Florida.

You need a photo ID and signature, as most people use their driver's license.

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