MoreMonmouthMusings has been informed by a reliable source that out of 3,786 provisional ballots submitted in Monmouth County, 2,153 have been deemed to have been cast by registered voters.
Counting the ballots may go on for the rest of the week.
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Out of curiosity, what then are the other 1,633 ballots? I mean, are they submitted by dead folks? People less than 18 years of age? People who recently moved in/out of the county and may/may not have voted elsewhere? And, any idea if, and/or how many of, those 1,633 were submitted by/through something like ACORN which has questionable practices? Is nearly 50% of provisional ballots being rejected the "norm" or is that high/low compared to other years? So many questions, maybe the worst newspaper in the world can write an interesting and informative story on such a topic? Hah.
Some are people who applied for absentee ballots, some were registered in other counties, some just weren't registered.
Does anyone know if anyone has carefully examined the absentee ballots? The number of absentee ballots is so far off the norm, that even if you account for an expected increase in absentee ballots, it's stil multiples in many municipalities of what it should have been. And the votes within those absentee ballots are extremely suspect. In Manalapan, for example, there were nearly absentee 1000 ballots in a community that gets about 300 in a presidential year normally. And the overwhelming majority, I mean the over over overwhelming majority of those ballots were for Mayor Roth when the election day vote total showed here eking out a victory by maybe 100 to 200 total votes. Since the county election is so close, someone had better check those absentee ballots.
Does anyone know if anyone has carefully examined the absentee ballots?
The optical scanner did.
that will tell us how they voted, it doesn't tell us whether it was a real person who voted or an ACORN off the tree.
That bird in your heading isn't a turkey is it?
Is it me, or usually, the uncounted/recounted ballots tend to lean Democrat, wherever this happens?? Dunno why... is voting too difficult a process for them so their ballots are always contested?
Does anyone know if anyone has carefully examined the absentee ballots? The number of absentee ballots is so far off the norm, that even if you account for an expected increase in absentee ballots, it's stil multiples in many municipalities of what it should have been. And the votes within those absentee ballots are extremely suspect. In Manalapan, for example, there were nearly absentee 1000 ballots in a community that gets about 300 in a presidential year normally. And the overwhelming majority, I mean the over over overwhelming majority of those ballots were for Mayor Roth when the election day vote total showed here eking out a victory by maybe 100 to 200 total votes. Since the county election is so close, someone had better check those absentee ballots.
Well any historical study of past presidential elections is not valid since NJ went to no excuse absentee ballot in 2005.
As an absentee voter I received a letter and mailer from the Democratic candidates addressed to absentee ballot applicants. They performed this outreach to all absentee ballot applicants, irrespective of party affiliation. I alerted my Party about this, unfortunately this outreach was not replicated by the GOP. That may explain the large number of absentees votes for Roth.
The absentee ballots were counted by an optical scanner.
A recount is likely.
Given the push for early voting, an increase in absentee ballots is not surprising.
Manalapan has a large senior community, Covered Bridge, where many of the residents are well into their 70's and 80's. It's likely that between snowbirds and those unable to get to the polls, that many of those absentees came from there. They usually go Democrat by a 4 or 5 to 1 margin.
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