Posted on 05/15/2019 8:26:43 AM PDT by dead
Edited on 05/15/2019 11:06:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A Cedar Grove police officer responded to a compliant late last night that councilman Harry Kumburis, who lost re-election by 33 votes, was ringing doorbells after 10 PM and targeting voters who had requested a vote-by-mail ballot but not yet returned it.
The polls had closed at 8 PM, and votes were counted within 30 minutes. Challenger Joe Maceri defeated Kumburis 796 to 763. There were 25 provisional votes cast at the polls yesterday.
The Essex County Prosecutor’s office has been notified of the issue, according to a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
A doorbell video obtained by the New Jersey Globe shows Kumburis ringing at the door of a Cedar Grove residence. An audio recording shows the councilman and another man. Kumburis appears to use his cell phone flashlight to look at some papers he was carrying.
Kumburis could not identify the other man.
“I don’t remember who I was with,” he said.
The man asked Kumburis whose door they were at.
“I don’t even know,” the councilman said. . “I feel like calling the [bleep] guy. I can’t even tell you what the last name is.”
He later identified the last name, although he thought it was the first name.
The entire recording was about 30 seconds.
“It don’t look like they’re home,” Kumburis said. “Let’s get out of here.”
Kumburis told the Globe that he was going door to door at 10:22 PM “because it was a close race.”
“I asked an individual if they had returned their ballot or voted provisional,” Kumburis said. “I’d like to know why they weren’t completed.”
Asked if he thought it was odd to be ringing doorbells more than two hours after the polls closed, Kumburis said “I didn’t think so.”
Kumburis denied that he was seeking last minute votes after the pols had closed.
The individual who lives at the home where Kumburis rang the doorbell had requested a vote-by-mail ballot for yesterday’s non-partisan municipal election but did not return her ballot, according to records obtained by the Globe. Vote-by-mail ballots are accepted by elections officials through Thursday, as long as they are postmarked by Tuesday.
“I’m not the most political guy,” he said. “I’m just a regular person.”
The voter, whose name is being withheld by the Globe, contacted police shortly after the incident.
Kumburis was identified by a police officer, according to a Cedar Grove police report.
Would you please re-post with the F bomb in the 8th paragraph removed?
It’s Jersey................
“fucking” in the story quote
It worked in California......
Was drunk...is my best guess.
Ballot harvesting.
Too bad Kumburis doesn’t live in Caliph-phony-a. He could have paid someone to “harvest” the un-returned mail ballots, make sure they were properly voted (for him, of course) then found in someone’s car trunk in a day or two.
How do you think Hitler-y won the state by 5 million illegal and otherwise votes?
Whats wrong with a little harvesting?
The guy who posted it is dead anyway.
Nice that police respond to complaints...
Nice that police respond to “compliants”...
True.
Sorry, the vulgarity did not register when I initially read it. I usually remove such words.
What good is a deadline when candidates are going to harvest ballots after the polls close.
Yeah. It’s becoming so common in what passes for culture these days we often miss it entirely.
Seriously though, you can’t post a story about New Jersey unless there’s an f-bomb in it.
I think it’s an industry standard or something.
New way to get votes...Amazing...if I lost, I’d accept it, not bother people at 10pm...
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