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Monday, October 18, 2004

Voting shenanigans in NJ
Posted by Jill | 9:45 AM
Now that New Jersey has become a battleground state, we can expect to see more of this.

I saw a neighbor last night who went to the Bergen County Board of Elections on October 13 to obtain an application for an absentee ballot. She was told to complete the application IN PENCIL, including the signature. Another voter there at the same time was similarly advised. She was then given an absentee ballot and told that she could either mail it in, or hand-deliver it to the Superintendent of Elections, but the clerk recommended hand-delivering it.

My neighbor came home, concerned about the pencil completion of the application, and called the Hudson County Board of Elections, to see how THEY do it. Turns out that Hudson County requires applications to be completed in ink. Concerned now that someone in the Board of Elections was trying to pull a fast one, she called the office of the Bergen County Superintendent of Elections and was told that they do not handle absentee ballots, they only handle registrations.

One of three things is going on here: Either

a) the people working in these office haven't got a clue about what they're supposed to do,

b) something is being set up so that absentee ballots can be voided because the applications were completed in pencil, or

c) people are being told to send their absentee ballots to the wrong place to ensure that they won't be counted.

So much for absentee voting being a solution to the problem of rigged and hacked voting machines.
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