Eric Shawn (sp)
People from the 1800s voting in NJ? Confirmed?
Hello Eric Shawn,
I wrote this in June, after the NJ Primaries. I believe I've found the influx! Active voters are on our rolls from the 1800s.
It seems to be confirmed, inadvertently, by our own Secretary of State.
June 3rd is really showing to be an interesting election. Especially the reporting and the lack of reporting.
The buzzword of June 3rd seems to be consistently maintained, low voter turnout.
Yet, numbers show otherwise. Why the conflict in reporting then?
Early reporting on districts show very low voter turnout. The odd part is, that reporting is still maintained by poll workers. Since the numbers changed, drastically, where was the influx?
Up to about 10:30pm June 3rd, early reporting was consistent and showed Sabrin and Pennacchio Columns ahead in districts where their strengths were.
Sometime after 10:30pm, a drastic number in vote count reporting changed everything. Yet, poll workers have yet to show where these numbers came from.
Eagleton Institute show there are 123,531 registered voters in the 3rd District.
Of those registered voters, 17.3% are Republicans.
The total unofficial votes for the 3rd district congressional races show a total of 24,164 votes as reported by Dave Levinski of Burlington County Times.
Statistically, that is more than registered party members. If I was with the Burlington County Republican Organization, I would be proudly tauting that type of showing for a Primary.
Yet, the polling districts still maintain a low turn out. Where was the influx?
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Influx found? Was our influx from a 'get out the vote' of the NJ citizens of the 1800s?
New Jersey the Dead and Your Vote
Excerpt from added comment on blog:
Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells states in her press release that the letters went out to peolpe on the active voter rolls from 2004 to present.
These letters went out to voters that may have had a discreptency that needed to be updated in their data but they wouldn't be disenfranchised and be removed.
Active Voter Rolls? People born 200 years ago?
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-11/122093494096820.xml&coll=1&thispage=1
Excerpt:
Emphasis:
**Evans said 300,000 letters went out to residents of Essex, Bergen and five South Jersey counties. She did not know how many were erroneous. Before the mailings resume, she said, the data will be scrubbed -- in particular to keep those voters listed as 208 years old from getting 'unduly alarmed.' **
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Sept 9-09 Secretary of State and Division of Elections offer Additional Information to Assist Voters
Trenton, NJ - In an effort to identify people who may not have been offered the opportunity to register to vote when they applied for a driver’s license or those whose driver’s license information was different from their voter registration information, the Secretary of State’s Office is mailing letters that include voter registration forms to ensure that those individuals have the opportunity to register to vote.
The Division of Elections, using records from the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) and the Statewide Voter Registration System, identified 880,000 residents going back to 2004 who may not be registered to vote or who may have such discrepancies.
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A mailing list was created by comparing information from MVC with the Statewide Voter Registration System to send letters to those individuals with no apparent voter registration record. In an effort to match the records the Division of Elections did a seven-level comparison with the MVC file using last name and date of birth as the final match criteria.
In cases where a discrepancy in information was discovered, a letter was sent to correct the information of the voter. The discrepancy could have been as minor as a missing date of birth if the original registration occurred when only legal proof of being eighteen years of age was required, or if some aspect of the individual’s name did not match on both an individual’s voter registration record and driver’s license.
**A small percentage of people who received letters were registered voters who had been voting for years. Although they received a letter because of a minor discrepancy in their record, their status as registered voters was not changed and they will continue to be eligible to vote. **