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Westwood NJ, big problem with the voting machines in Bergen County. Don’t leave the polls until your vote is officially counted.
Complaints range from “voter already voted” , “voter not registered ” and just voting machines down .
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Continue reading New Jersey Lt. Governor Tahesha Way, Esq. Arrives to Ridgewood
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Trenton NJ, “The three commissioners who comprise the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission resigned Thursday afternoon,” according to published reports.
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Trenton NJ, Election officials in Mercer County, New Jersey are working to investigate what caused a county-wide voting machine outage on Election Day. The malfunction forced voters at over 130 polling places in Mercer County to fill out a standard ballot and place it into the emergency slot in the voting machine.
Continue reading Epic Failure of Mercer County Voting Machines
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Ridgewood NJ, last year’s election featured mail-in voting as a measure to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, but now more states are making vote-by-mail permanent, and nearly two-thirds of voters believe the result will be more cheating in elections.
Continue reading Vote-By-Mail: Most Voters Think It Will Cause More Cheating
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Middletown NJ, Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger (R-Monmouth) has introduced legislation (A5401) which would prevent future attempts by this or any New Jersey Governor to unilaterally change how voters are able to invoke their constitutionally guaranteed right to vote. The bill comes as New Jersey continues to be under the seemingly autonomous control of one individual since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last March:
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New Bridge Landing NJ, according to the Bergen County Historical Society , in New Jersey in the early 1800s, local taverns often served as polling places. Women and people of color joined other legal voters to cast their ballots in taverns marked by signs like the one pictured here, featured in our new exhibit When Women Lost the Vote.
Continue reading Bergen County Historical Society : Local Taverns often Served as Polling Places
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Ridgewood NJ, Based on a letter Dr. Fishbein received from the Superintendent of Elections voicing concerns about safety at schools that are open on Election Day 2020, the Board discussed the pros and cons of altering the school calendar next year on that date as well as additional security measures that might be implemented that day. The Board consensus was to keep the schools open that day.
By Philip Bump November 16 at 9:30 AM
Of America’s 320 million-odd residents, only about three-quarters are eligible to vote (mostly because they’re over the age of 18). Of the group that could vote in the presidential election, the U.S. Election Project’s Michael McDonald estimates that about 58.1 percent did — meaning that 41.9 percent of eligible Americans didn’t vote last week.
Using the most recent national splits from the Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman, that means that Donald Trump was elected president with the support of fewer than 1 in 5 Americans.
As a country, our most important day comes on the first Tuesday after the firstMonday in November every four years – It’s a Presidential Election Day. On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, voters across the country will line up at polling places to voice their opinion about who should serve as our next commander-in-chief. However, by that time, about 40% of the vote already will be in. Christopher Durkin, PolitickerNjRead more
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In our judiciary committee hearing yesterday I point out the utter hypocrisy of Democratic Party leaders holding a public hearing on an unprecedented four constitutional amendments while keeping the public in the dark and refusing to answer questions. ( Rep. Holly Schepisi New Jersey GOP)
Academics, others slam Democrats’ redistricting amendment
By MATT FRIEDMAN 2:24 p.m. | Jan. 7, 2016follow this reporter
TRENTON — It’s not just Republican lawmakers who oppose redistricting changes that could secure Democrats’ electoral advantage for decades to come.
Two New Jersey academics who have extensively studied how the state draws its legislative districts gave scathing testimony Thursday against the proposed constitutional amendment.
Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said wording of the amendment is deliberately misleading to voters, who must decide whether to approve it.
“This is a bald-faced attempt to pull the wool over voters’ eyes; making them complicit in a process that will only serve to increase their cynicism about politics,” Murray told a Senate committee.
