In a Democratic state, running against a lackluster Republican opponent and with a war chest filled with twice as much lucre as both his opponents combined, with multiple visits by the charismatic President of the United States, Democrat incumbent Jon Corzine has resorted to playing dirty chests while corrupt organizations try to manufacture a few votes to help him retain his lease on Drumthwacket–and give Democrats something to crow about on Wednesday.
In order to divide the vote of those opposed to the unpopular Democrat, his fellow partisans have all but made independent candidate Chris Daggett into a stalking horse for the incumbent. They’re making robocalls to voters, trashing Chris Christie, the only candidate with a chance of unseating the Democrat, urging them to vote instead for Daggett.
And now, we’ve got “ACORN on the scene.”
GOP officials recently received a phone tip from a hospital in Newark, reporting that people in ACORN t-shirts were in the facility signing up and collecting absentee ballots. New Jersey law allows anyone to take up to 10 absentee ballots at a time. The tipster reported seeing individuals in the ACORN shirts entering the hospital with blank absentee ballots and leaving with completed ballots.
There are reports out of Camden, New Jersey that voters are discovering that absentee ballots have already been submitted under their name. They did not authorize these ballots. Early reports suggested that the number of absentee ballots ‘requested’ in Camden city is higher than in any previous election. This will no doubt spark confusion on election day.
And not just a little bit higher:
Victor Negron, a campaign adviser for independent mayoral candidate Roberto Feliz, a former director of Camden’s public works department, says he’s shocked that more than fifteen times the normal number of voters are casting absentee ballots in Camden this year. In the 2005, when the city’s voters voted for both governor and mayor on the same day, only 200 absentee ballots were cast. This year, some 3,700 have already been received. At least four voters have approached the Feliz campaign to complain that an absentee ballot was sent to them without their permission or cast for them without their understanding the documents they were signing.
And when we see who else has been rounding up votes in the Garden State, we have a better understanding about why SEIU President Andy Stern was the most frequent visitor at the White House. His minions have been doing double-time in the Garden State:
Acorn’s longtime allies, the Service Employee International Union and New York’s Working Families Party, have both moved into New Jersey. Peter Colavito, Acorn’s former political director in New York and a board member of the Working Families Party, is now the political director of SEIU Local 32BJ, which is heavily involved in New Jersey’s election.
My sense is that the Democrats internal polling shows undecided voters breaking heavily for Christie and are using whatever means possible to find additional votes for Corine the Chicago Way. With these types of shenanigans going on ’round election time, one wonders why the MSM is taking so little interest.
Oh yeah, that’s right, when Democrats commit electoral fraud, it’s for a noble cause. Sorry, I forgot about that.
It’s clear the Obama White House very badly wants a victory in one of the three big races tomorrow. They’re not going to get Virginia, their odds of winning in New York seem to be diminishing with each passing day and Jersey seems their best shot. But, if news of underhanded tactics keeps dripping out during the day tomorrow and after the ballot are counted, that election is going to look pretty tarnished. And the era of hope and change will turn out to be one of the failed, er, corrupt machine politics of the past, you know the politics on which Obama waged rhetorical war in his campaign last fall.
*Some would call this stealing.
After reading all of the information that is available, including the fact that the robocalls have been traced to the DNC in NJ, I do hope that those who get out and vote do in fact favour Christie, no matter what is faults might be.
The corruption of the DNC is so great that it amazes me that there are people who continue to vote for them regardless of this corruption. I should add here that I would state the same thing if there was Republican corruption.
I am also hopeful that Hoffman will will in New York. It would be the best outcome for everyone involved.
Sidebar: Isn’t Drumthwacket the name of the cat in Bell, Book and Candle?
follow the link; it’s the name of the New Jersey Governor’s mansion.
“Win ugly” or win typically?
Has Jessie Jackson shown up yet to accuse Republicans of trying to scare minorities away from the polls? Perhaps Al Franken has a few thousand reserve votes he can donate to the cause. Have they cast the senility votes from the nursing homes yet? Have they gone out to the Meadowlands and gotten Jimmy Hoffa’s vote?
This stuff is done in plain view and the media reports on a chicken with three drumsticks someone says he saw in the backwaters of Mongolia while looking for the cure for stuttering.
I am sorry, but these shenanigans that the Democrats pull using ACORN, SEIU, and their other corrupt organizations needs to be stopped. There need to be full fledged criminal investigations launched that target the leadership of these organizations, and when they inevitably show that the corropution is tied to Democratic leadership, those leaders need to be prosecuted.
There has to come a point where we say enough is enough. If people want Democrats, let them vote for them fair and square. If not, Republicans should be able to win without having to face the Democratic opponent, the biased media, and the corrupt tentacles of the Democratic Party – Acorn and SEIU.
How is ACORN manufacturing votes out of nothing any different from Obama/Bernanke/Geithner manufacturing dollars from nothing, or for that matter, grade inflation in the schools and so forth? It’s an “inflation society”. Anyone with real values to protect, hunker down.
Sidebar: Isn’t Drumthwacket the name of the cat in Bell, Book and Candle?
Close. It’s Pyewacket. 🙂
Here in semi-rural Southern NJ, we were getting 4-6 robo-calls a day…and yesterday about one-an-hour…all from Corzine/Daggett surrogates or stalking horses. And the TV ads have been heavily Corzine’s, mostly still spouting Corzine campaign-acknowledged lies and distortions about Christie. Never before do I remember a state-level campaign admitting their ads were misleading or out-right lies…and still continuing to air them afterwards.
I expect HUGE court-battles if the polling is close, the Florio/Kean race was finally decided after a recount by less than 100-votes in the 1970’s….and that was with mechanical voting machines. In most of the NJ counties, the voting machines are electronic…with the rest being computer-driven screens. With a reported heavy absentee-balloting and many overseas-military votes racing the deadline this could be ugly…errm, I mean interesting.
n.b. We’re a Republican-governed county.
And yet it makes their meltdown over Election 2000 even more amusing as time and their fraud marches on. It’s also a great reminder that they know damn well they can’t win at the ballot box if they show who they truly are and what they really stand for. Chairman Obama would be a nobody back bencher today if he had.
Yeah, I was just being silly. Evidently, though, Dan wasn’t in the mood. I thought it was an odd name for an executive mansion and made me think of movie and Jack Lemmon when he was younger.