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Election Chaos Throughout New Jersey

It could be a week or more until New Jersey’s votes are tallied due to the huge increase in provisional ballots cast both at the polls and via the email/fax voting system that Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno announced this week to accommodate voters displaced by Hurricane Sandy.

  is reporting that the vote by fax or email allowance has resulting in mass confusion and fear that thousands of votes will not be counted.  Guadagno extended the deadline to apply for a ballot until 5PM today and the deadline for the ballot to be received until 8PM on Friday.

Thousands of voters are complaining that their emails applying for ballots are bouncing back from full email boxes and that phone numbers are busy or going unanswered.

In addition to the email/fax voting problems, polling places are accepting provisional ballots from displaced voters and from out of state law enforcement/recuse workers who have traveled to New Jersey to assist in the recovery efforts.  Each of those provisional ballots will have to be manually verified before being counted.

Ballots cast by early voters at county election offices throughout the state will have to be checked to be sure that those who took advantage of the early voting privilege did not also go to the polls to vote.

In Middletown, approximately half the the voting districts voted exclusively by paper ballots due to a voting machine programing errors, primarily in the 6th congressional district portion of the Township, according to Mayor Tony Fiore.  “Epic Fail on the part of whoever was in charge of those voting machines,” Fiore said, “the county only provided us with about 50 paper ballots.  We reproduced ballots on our own at a secure location.”

There is record turnout at the polls in Asbury Park and Long Branch, according to a Democratic source.

 

Posted: November 6th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Elections | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »