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Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched Signatures on Absentee-Ballot Requests – NRO

October 29, 2009
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by MB Snow

090602_corzine_christie_apcomp_297Thursday October 29, 2009

HORSERACE

Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched Signatures on Absentee-Ballot Requests

This year, New Jersey’s registered voters can request a mail-in ballot for any reason. (Before 2005, voters needed to provide a reason for why they needed an absentee ballot.) The state received about 150,000 absentee-ballot applications this year.

On about 2,300 of those applications so far, the signature on the request form does not match the signature on the voter’s registration forms with the state.

In a development that is depressingly predictable, the New Jersey Democratic party is asking the state to provide provisional ballots for all these voters. Those ballots could, presumably, be used to overcome any narrow lead by Republican Chris Christie over Democrat Jon Corzine on Election Day.

A mass distribution of provisional ballots, at the request of a political party, would represent a significant change from established law. Currently, when a county clerk rejects an absentee-ballot request, the clerk tries to contact the voter — through mail, by phone, and in some cases, by attempting to contact the voter in person. And a person who has spoken to some of New Jersey’s county clerks says they’re granting wide latitude on signature styles; for them to reject a ballot request because of the signature, it has to be dramatically different from the one on file.

via Campaign Spot on National Review Online.


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One Comment
  1. tar_and_feathers permalink
    October 30, 2009 11:37 AM

    The “you-know what” will hit the proverbial fan in this country the moment the first politically important election is nullified. IF that happens, lines will be drawn, sides will be taken, and the federal courts will try to take over the election process. At that point Americans will have to decide which side of the law they choose to stand.

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