Mail Voter Fraud, Which Doesn’t Exist, Forces New Election Daniel Greenfield
“Trump Keeps touting New Jersey fraud case to attack mail voting. Local leaders say he’s not telling the whole story.” Washington Post
In slightly more recent news…
A judge has ruled that a new election will be held in November for a disputed City Council seat, just weeks after the race’s apparent winner and a sitting councilman were charged with voter fraud.
Alex Mendez had won a special election on May 12 to fill the seat, but claims of voter fraud were soon raised. An investigation was then launched after the U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement arm told the state Attorney General’s Office about hundreds of mail-in ballots located in a mailbox in Paterson, along with more found in nearby Haledon.
Ultimately, the Passaic County Board of Elections decided not to count 800 ballots cast in the race.
Voter fraud charges were brought in June against Mendez, Paterson Council Vice President Michael Jackson and two other men: Shelim Khalique, of Wayne, and Abu Rayzen, of Prospect Park. An attorney for Councilman William McKoy, who had been defeated by Mendez, then successfully sought an injunction that barred Mendez from being sworn into office.
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Governor Murphy has argued that the indictments prove the system works. Not really. Catching a bunch of guys doesn’t address how many more of them went uncaught. Or what the odds of catching anyone would be if the system gets overloaded by massive mail voting.
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