Beware of Jersey Democrats’ election tricks in – Latest News
When criminals plan to steal one thing — whether or not jewels from the Louvre or a New Jersey election — they very last thing they need round is a security digicam.
That appears the likeliest rationalization for this month’s determination by the Democratic-controlled Passaic County, NJ, Board of Elections to ban cameras for poll storage areas in subsequent month’s gubernatorial election.
And for its refusal to implement sign-in and sign-out logs for people who entry mail-in ballots.
State GOP Chairman Glenn Paulsen rightly calls this blatant preparation to steal the vote nothing short of “alarming.”
Why else, after all, would the board — whose chairman, John Currie, additionally occurs to be head of the county’s Democratic Party — not need additional security measures that might make it more durable to rig voting and increase public confidence that the election was truthful?
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Especially given Passaic’s historical past of voter irregularities.
Democrats should concern the race for governor between ex-Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R) and Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D) is just too close to go away up to voters.
For good purpose: Ciattarelli steadily whittled down Sherrill’s lead in the polls, with a Quantas Insights Poll this month placing him simply 3.3 factors behind — nicely within the margin of error.
And the Democratic National Committee has been desperately pouring in money to avoid wasting Sherrill, with one other infusion final week to push the entire previous $3 million.
Heavily populated Passaic is a key swing county: President Donald Trump misplaced there by 16.6 share factors in 2020, however received by three final yr.
It might nicely resolve Jersey’s subsequent governor.
No surprise Garden State GOPers are begging the Justice Department to ship displays to supervise the election — or, at the least, the vote-by-mail ballots.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: Your responsibility calls.
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After the 2020 COVID election, when more than 90% of Jersey voters mailed in their ballots, prosecutors uncovered quite a few stinks in Passaic.
They slapped ex-Paterson City Council President Alex Mendez, Councilman Michael Jackson and different officers with a host of expenses, together with election fraud, unauthorized poll possession, forgery and tampering with public data.
Voters wants assurances that this yr’s important vote will probably be truthful.
If Democrats can’t conform to that, why trust them in any respect?
