[CFW]

The early vote was double-counted in Hudson County. It has now been fixed, bringing Murphy’s total down by 10,732 and Ciattarelli’s by 2,842. Ciattarelli goes back up in the statewide tally:

Ciattarelli (R): 1,177,803 (49.6%)
Murphy (D) 1,177,108 (49.6%)

— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) November 3, 2021

[CFW]

There is an article here that explains it.

https://beckernews.com/wow-a-voting-error-was-just-fixed-in-new-jersey-and-jack-ciattarelli-is-back-up-in-the-governors-race-42892/

Or, in other words, they got caught!

[Swirl]

now:

Ciattarelli (R): 1,185,569 (49.31%)
Murphy (D) 1,200,803 (49.94%)

with approx 89% of vote

at 2:03P EDT Wednesday

[central_va]

RCP has the Demonrat up by 12K votes.