Posted on 11/01/2009 10:55:30 PM PST by American Dream 246
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is locked in the political fight of his life. With just hours left before voting, polls show a neck-and-neck race between Corzine and GOP candidate Chris Christie, with Independent candidate Chris Daggett pulling significant support. Obama and VP Biden are making last ditch pitches for the embattled governor. But evidence is building that Corzine’s campaign may see its only salvation is in rigging the election.
The first sign is a straight-up dirty trick. Daggett’s run for office is certainly convenient for Corzine, as he will help split any anti-Corzine vote. And, as a Corzine political appointee, one wonders if his candidacy wasn’t a set up to begin with. Now, in the final days of the campaign, it appears state democrats are paying for robo calls supporting Independent Chris Daggett. First reported here, the robo calls attack Christie (but not Corzine) and promote Daggett. At the end of the call, it is mentioned that the calls are paid for by a “project of the NJSDC.” No idea what that acronym stands for, but New Jersey State Democratic Committee, isn’t too big of a stretch. More interesting is the fact that the return number on the calls is the same number that was used to promote Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s election in closing days of the 2006 race.
More telling that the fix is in, however, is the sudden appearance of ACORN on the scene. Not by name, mind you, as their reputation is so tarnished that even New Jersey Democrats don’t want to be associated with them. No, in New Jersey ACORN sought cover behind its big brother, SEIU, specifically SEIU Local 32BJ.
The political director for the SEIU local is Peter Colavito. Just last year, he was ACORN’s political director in New York, working directly under Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s CEO and co-chair of ACORN-backed Working Families Party. He was, and remains, a top official and board member of the Working Families Party in New York. In fact, his wife is currently an employee of the Working Families Party. Corzine has made much of his endorsement by the SEIU local, failing to mention the union’s deep ties to both ACORN and its Working Families Party in New York.
These ties are starting to appear, however. GOP officials recently received a phone tip from a hospital in Newark, reporting that people in ACORN t-shirts were in the facility signing up and collecting absentee ballots. New Jersey law allows anyone to take up to 10 absentee ballots at a time. The tipster reported seeing individuals in the ACORN shirts entering the hospital with blank absentee ballots and leaving with completed ballots.
There are reports out of Camden, New Jersey that voters are discovering that absentee ballots have already been submitted under their name. They did not authorize these ballots. Early reports suggested that the number of absentee ballots ‘requested’ in Camden city is higher than in any previous election. This will no doubt spark confusion on election day.
Possibly anticipating this confusion, the state Democratic Committee recently sent a letter to the Secretary of State, arguing that any absentee ballot that is rejected should still be counted as a “provisional” vote. The letter complained that almost 3,000 absentee ballots had already been rejected “solely on the basis of a comparison of their signature to the signature on record.” Solely? If the signature of the voter doesn’t match the signature on the ballot, is there really a reason to look at anything else? The letter from the state Democrats suggests that election officials should simply verify that the address on the absentee ballot matches the address on record. Right, and my bank should go ahead and cash any suspicious check as long as the address on the check matches my home address.
The best hope here is that Christie wins by enough of a margin that these dirty tricks are moot. As they say in sports, put enough points on the board and the refs can’t steal it from you.
[Ed Note: Big Government will be working closely on election day with Election Journal and its army of citizen journalists and videographers to document any instances of voter fraud in New Jersey. We welcome the help of readers in New Jersey. If you would like to volunteer to help maintain the integrity of the democratic process, please send an email to electionjournal@gmail.com. You can use this same email to report any voting irregularities you witness on Tuesday. Also, please send in any of your own documentary video of problems at polling places. Big Media may ignore stories of voter fraud, but together we can shine the critical light on it.]
This is the exact problem with ease of absentee voting. This is the prime way for the Democrats to steel elections. Just ask Al Franken, or Norm Coleman. No election is safe that has a Democrat running.
Why bother with the question mark?
I knew it...Union Goons emboldened by Obama’s visit...
There are reports out of Camden....
I guy I worked with from NJ said that Camden is as corrupt as it gets....
Neck and neck going inot the vote is a sure Social Democrat win. ACIRN has not been disenfranchised and the NJcrats have their own voting control systems. Republicans probably have to have a mimimum 10-15% edge to break even in a New Jersey election.
If it’s close in a blue state, the election is going to go the Democrat. They will abuse the system until they get the outcome they want.
There is another thread up that shows Christie up considerably. However, there is NO accounting for ACORN/SEIU/Corzine $$$.
“However, there is NO accounting for ACORN/SEIU/Corzine $$$”
Tough to overcome the VOTER FRAUD FACTOR in New Jersey. In recent years the Democrat has outperformed the polling averages by 5-6%. That’s a hell of a margin to overcome.
Can you imagine the chaos if the Bush administration had taken Dems claims of voter fraud seriously?
Given what we know about ACORN, the rampant fraud discovered during any investigation would have kept Dems out of power for a generation.
‘Course with Dems in power, there wont be investigations.
The NY Times reported:
(a) every TV ad Corzine puts on the air is being screened by the Obama's WH team.
(b) The governor’s aides give the WH daily briefings.
(c) Obama’s pollsters have taken over for Corzine’s polling team, and,
(d) White House operatives are on the ground for everything from internal strategy sessions to secret, obscure pep rallies with Latinoes, (still toweling off after swimming the Rio Grande).
Corzine has a "Peruvian PAC" endorsing him. Latino invaders from Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Spain are currently "registered" to vote in NJ (or being trucked in election day) under several names.......all voting for Corzine under several identities.
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THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Ohaha hid $17.5B federal stimulus in Jersey. According to an investigative news report, the billions have simply disappeared.....never to be seen....never used for the muni projects the WH heralded.
Obama and Biden visited Corzine couple times (SURPRISE: Ohaha put Biden in charge of the stimulus dispersal). We can safely conclude Ohaha hid $17.5B stimulus in Jersey to aid Jonny’s reelection. $17.5 B is a lot of walking-around "street money." Will buy Jon Boy all the hyphenated voting blocs he needs to get back in.
Let’s not forget Corzine was sucking up to 2008 candidate Hillary ---and even offered to fund primary do-overs for her (that she lost when states broke DNC rules).
But when push came to shove, faster than you can say “I’m a loser with Hillary,” at the DNC convention, Corzine gave all of NJ’s primary votes to Obama (even though Hillary won the NJ primary).
Like when[ever] I think of New Jersey Democrats I think *Oxydol*. LOL
Unreal.
Thanks Liz, great synopsis of events.
I knew the state's corrupt to high heaven, but good grief. The stench is unbearable.
In any event bring it on. Tomorrow we all shall behold the wonders of America, in, 2009 America. Don't be late, our future's arriving. LOL
This time people need to stand up and call them out.
Any fishy stuff needs to be called out and then prosecuted.
I am tired of the democrats cheating and getting away with it.
“”More telling that the fix is in, however, is the sudden appearance of ACORN on the scene. Not by name, mind you, as their reputation is so tarnished that even New Jersey Democrats don’t want to be associated with them.”
Next project........HOFFMAN
This is exactly what is going to happen in 2010 and 2012. Dems are in very key positions to steal elections as demonstrated in the presidental election.
Voting now has turned into one big fraud. I have no faith in it whatsoever. The only way to fix it is to purge all voting rolls and have people re-register.
No conservative of any consequence will ever be elected again mark my words. The dems will not give up power.
Ohaha showed up three times for Corzine-——a VERY good target for Americans disgusted with Ohaha’s policies. At the same time Corzine’s failed governorship is also a huge negative.
Not to worry——the voter fraud machine is being revved up as we type. Ohaha’s Chicago buddies are experts in mfg the votes needed to win.
Look for piles of votes “suddenly appearing” in used pizza boxes.......... and floors littered with Taco Bell wrappers scribbled w/ “Vota Corzine.”
This year, New Jersey’s registered voters can request a mail-in ballot for any reason. (Before 2005, voters needed to provide a reason for why they needed an absentee ballot.) The state received about 150,000 absentee-ballot applications this year. On about 2,300 of those applications so far, the signature on the request form does not match the signature on the voter’s registration forms with the state.
In a development that is depressingly predictable, the New Jersey Democratic party is asking the state to provide provisional ballots for all these voters. Those ballots could, presumably, be used to overcome any narrow lead by Republican Chris Christie over Democrat Jon Corzine on Election Day.
A mass distribution of provisional ballots, at the request of a political party, would represent a significant change from established law. Currently, when a county clerk rejects an absentee-ballot request, the clerk tries to contact the voter — through mail, by phone, and in some cases, by attempting to contact the voter in person. And a person who has spoken to some of New Jersey’s county clerks says they’re granting wide latitude on signature styles; for them to reject a ballot request because of the signature, it has to be dramatically different from the one on file.
Could some of these cases be an election official misjudging the natural deviation in two handwriting samples from the same person? Certainly, and that's why the current system has clerks reaching out to rejected voters (presuming they actually exist) to sort out the discrepancy. But Democrats want to short-circuit the established methods of sorting out the problem, and in fact to ban rejections based on signature mismatches entirely.
Paul P. Josephson, a lawyer representing the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, wrote to Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells, asking her to “instruct County Clerks not to deny (vote by mail) applications on the basis of signature comparison alone.” Josephson claims that “the data reveal a troubling disparity in rejection rates — from hundreds of applications in Atlantic (271 rejections, or 5.84 percent) and Hudson (362, or 4.13 percent) to just a handful in counties such as Hunterdon (6, or .20 percent) and Mercer (35, or .49 percent). We also note that staff and unaffiliated voters are being rejected at a far higher ratio than Republicans by a ratio of three-to-one.”
But a source who has seen the data disagrees, contending the number of rejections is consistently proportional to the number of absentee ballots requested. This source described the rate of rejections as within a normal range, and he saw no clustering in particular regions.
Josephson contends that “even if the county clerks notify voters by mail that their applications have been rejected, too many of those voters will not have an opportunity to correct the situation.” But besides the county clerks’ efforts to contact voters laid out above, those who have not received an absentee ballot will still be able to vote on Election Day.
Democrats have never made this request before, not even in 2008, where many more New Jersey residents were voting through absentee ballots. Of course, that year Democrats Barack Obama and Frank Lautenberg were expected to win the statewide races handily.
Last year, the state party had no objections to the actions of county clerks; now, the party's counsel fears that the county-clerk staff “may be overworked and are likely not trained in handwriting analysis.” Strangely, these same county-clerk staffers managed to handle this year’s primary elections in New Jersey without any major complaints.
The fears of absentee-ballot fraud in New Jersey is not theoretical or far-fetched. Earlier this year, Atlantic City councilman Marty Small and 13 people who worked on his unsuccessful mayoral campaign “were indicted on charges they conspired to commit election fraud during the June Democratic primary through a variety of schemes involving messenger absentee ballots, state Attorney General Anne Milgram announced in Trenton.” One of those workers has already pled guilty. Five workers were indicted on similar charges in Essex County in August.
Suspicious minds see the letter as an attempt to create a pool of emergency votes to be used if Christie holds a small lead on Election Night. The Secretary of State has not yet responded to the Democrats’ request.
Jimmah Carter should be in Joisey tomorrow to ensure a fair election, but since it’s Democrats who steal elections in this country, it’s for a worthy result, doncha know.
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