On the afternoon of November 3rd, three generations of Korean-American families came out to Flushing's Junior High School 189 in order to vote, showing their strong commitment to the city's electoral process. Mr. Kong-tae Gil, a resident of Flushing, came with his mother, his grandmother, and his wife, while his two sons, too young to vote, came along to see first hand what it means to vote. He said that even though there was no Korean-American candidate in District 20, they had come out to show their support.

An Asian volunteer working at the polls in District 19, Bayside was accused of electioneering by the Republican candidate Daniel Halloran's campaign team. Police were called to the school, and the man was directed to place prominently his sticker identifying him as an election volunteer. In fact, he was not electioneering at the polls or campaigning for Kevin Kim, the Democratic candidate, but was involved in counting the number of voters, including Asians. Other poll workers said that this was the first time they had seen such an incident.

Mr. Chong Seung Jin, a former candidate for City Councilman had been listed on the ballot as a candidate in District 20. After he failed in the primary, despite backing of the Working Families Party, he withdrew his candidacy. But some Korean voters uncertain if he was still candidate actually voted for Jin at the polls.

District 20 in Flushing, Queens has the highest population of Koreans. Yet there was no Korean candidate from that district. Instead, two Chinese candidates were in the running: the Democratic nominee Yen Chou and the Republican nominee Peter Koo. On Election Day, the Rosenthal Senior Center polling center was thrown into such disorder that police were called; the Democratic candidate Yen Chou's visit to District 20 sparked his opponent Peter Koo's team to claim that the visit was a form of electioneering and a violation of the law.

In District 19, Republican candidate Daniel Halloran's campaign team had continually delivered misinformation throughout the campaign about his Democratic opponent, Kevin Kim, who is Korean American. On Election Day, several groups milling outside of or near polling places kept telling voters that Kim is Chinese trying to put him at a disadvantage in a district where many Caucasian voters have turned against the Chinese due to their growing commercial presence in the area.

In a mix-up of names, a Korean housewife in District 23 discovered someone else's signature next to her name. She informed the poll registrar, who simply suggested that since the names were the same the housewife should sign next to the other woman's name. Instead of doing that, she squeezed her own signature into the space where it belonged. She said she has been voting at the same location for over a decade, but had never experienced such stress before.