According to multiple sources, an Asbury Park Press reporter has discovered a major discrepancy between the the vote tallies printed from the voting machines in Neptune Township and those reported electronically via cartridges to the Monmouth County Clerk and posted on the county website.
The printed results reportedly indicated that Lillian Burry and John Curley earned between 7,000 and 8,000 more votes than reported on election night, which, if this proves to be true, would result in a decisive GOP victory in the Freeholder races.
Stay tuned. These election results are going to take more than a day or two to sort out.
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That'd be super.
This would be the best news I have heard yet!!!!!
Would be great news, but 7-8000 more votes makes no sense given the total cast in town. Town went democrat and on local level results show roughly 8000 for D's and 4000 for R's. Even if cartridge showed 0 for R's there is no room for them to get 8000 more. This would mean they beat the D's 2:1. So unless both sides are missing votes there is no way to get 8000 more. Happily R's dont need 8000 more, a more modest number will do. And make sure that Monmouth County counts all the absentee Military votes.
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Would be great news, but 7-8000 more votes makes no sense given the total cast in town. Town went democrat and on local level results show roughly 8000 for D's and 4000 for R's. Even if cartridge showed 0 for R's there is no room for them to get 8000 more. This would mean they beat the D's 2:1. So unless both sides are missing votes there is no way to get 8000 more. Happily R's dont need 8000 more, a more modest number will do. And make sure that Monmouth County counts all the absentee Military votes.
Agreed. A first look at the Neptune Township numbers would lead one to believe that a 7-8 thousand vote pick up just from there is not at all likely. I'd have to look at historical numbers to judge if the current numbers are under reported.
However, looking at the overal picture, it makes sense that there is something funky in the Freeholder numbers. The GOP did very well in Monmouth on the top of the line and in many municipal races, notably the large towns like Middletown and Wall. That there would a large enough crossover in the middle of the line to make the Freeholder races this close is unusal.
That's strange.
With that large a discrepancey I wonder how many other machines did not tally right?
Could the machines in Middletown be off that much?
It would explain the large difference in votes between the R's and D's in Middletown.
Good point Middletown Mike - maybe Walsh and Grenafege lost by an even bigger margin.
Art,
Looking at the vote totals from Neptune 12,527 votes were cast.
8, 081 votes for Dems
4,366 votes for Rep's
80 votes for other
There is NO way Burry and Curley recieved that many more votes. A third to half of the Dems would have had to split the ticket in Curley's favor and that is just not plausible.
It might not just be Neptune.
If Mallet takes it and the democrats take control, do you think Jim Purcell will get the public information job for the county?
Hearing about 7 or 8 towns. Curley will win this thing by over 7000 votes. Watch!
So. Running 3 blogs was too much for you? Or were they on to you being Goldwater.
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