What form of voting has ever allowed a copy of the ballot to leave the precinct? None that I know of.
Nor I.
Then again I don't live *in* anything remotely resembling New Jersey, either.
Wondering what the past average for absentee ballot counts look like for say the past 10 years, any election.
If *that* stat were looked at, their shenanigans would reveal themselves.
this is how it works,
send in a sacrifice voter to take an original ballot(s) when they vote.
They then take it out to the precinct boss waiting across the street.
The form is filled out, and given to the next voter who goes across the street, gets in line and returns with the next blank ballot (and gets paid)
The process is repeated. The stooge is not paid untill the ballot is returrned blank. Only the precinct boss fills out ballots.
Point being that there is some kind of hard trail, not atoms in the mist.