Posted on 11/03/2021 12:55:19 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The New Jersey governor’s race is still up in the air thanks to vote-counting debacles plaguing several counties — including in a key area where dozens of machines were shut down before ballots were counted.
A mistake by a poll worker led machines in 56 voting districts in Essex County, the state’s second-most populated region, to be turned off before their ballots were tallied, local election officials said.
The flub has helped throw a wrench into calling the stunningly tight race between Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and GOP foe Jack Ciattarelli.
“Those machines have to be brought back to the warehouse, and the judge will issue an order for us to open those machines, retrieve the results and post those results,’’ County Clerk Christopher Durkin told News 12.
He told The Post on Wednesday that he expects to have the districts’ results by Thursday night.
“The sooner, the better,” Durkin said.
The county voted heavily Democratic in the 2020 presidential election.
Murphy had been comfortably leading in the polls going into Election Day, only to have Ciattarelli narrow the gap between them to as few as 465 votes statewide at one point Wednesday.
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Yep Essex is a Dem stronghold
“snafu” = still creating the ballots necessary to win
Wham, bam, dominion ma’am!
They are already ahead. This may actually work in the good guys favor for once.
But of course. It was an innocent mistake, an unexpected glitch, which caused some votes in a Democrat area to not be counted. Happens all the time.
sarcasm.
Don’t you hate it when they’re so obvious.
It hardly gets more Democrat than Essex. Or more illiterate. I’m sure thousands of Essex residents have no idea that ballots were cast in their names; nor do they care.
No offense to any freepers who haven’t yet fled the scene.
Why is it that every time there is a voting count snafu it’s in a Democratic city? Yeh....I know!
Gosh. Who could have foreseen this happening?
Gosh. Who could have foreseen this happening?
A glitch in a dem stronghold. What a coincidence!
cripes...who didn’t call this...
Whoops. Another “vote-counting snafu” in a “key county.” Whaddyaknow.
Here we go again.
A forensic audit of Essex County would require marching through the cemeteries and comparing the names to signatures on paper ballots.
And when those votes are counted, it will increase the Democrat margin by thousands of votes. Of course this was an innocent error by some lower level hired help in the election office.
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