Congratulations! let's keep moving forward and bridging the gap.

People keep electing the same corrupt politicians responsible for high taxes in NJ. When will they learn?

They learned that the only trick the GOP has is balancing the budget on the backs of working people.

The blind voting in the blind, the crimes will continue! JF

Maybe we will get to build another restaurant. Oh boy.

I'm curious what people think about he state's foot dragging on replacing the Sequoia voting machines? Doesn't it bother you that years of accumulated evidence points out that access to the machines and a very basic level of knowledge could be exploited by people to change the winners in NJ elections - (and its been this way since 2006 or so) - and as far as I can tell, unless they make a stupid mistake, nobody could be the wiser?

See http://freedom-to-tinker.com/tags/voting

Mark, if thats what you think, I suspect that you didn't do any research into the Sequoia AVC Advantage/NJ "voting" machine insecurities. At all. Because thats what would have to be the case as its not just a sad state of affairs, Mark. Its a absolute abomination. Nomatter what our party is, we should be together on this one, this should make us angry.

If this continues, if we live in New Jersey, we DO NOT live in a democracy. Without any way of ensuring honest elections, we're living in something else. "Friendly fascism"? I don't know if I would go that far yet. BUT, thats where that road leads to, as without a functioning, secure electoral system, without the citizens as reality checks on the hubris of the powerful, we should be very afraid for our futures. All of us.

Because the vote is the ONE FACT that makes a government "of by and for the people". Without HONEST, FREE and FAIR elections, its a "regime" of some kind, and lacks legitimacy. It's certainly not "ours", and its arguably not America. At least not what I see as America.

Study Done for Constitutional Litigation Clinic Shows NJ E-Voting Machines Very Vulnerable to Tampering:
http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/news-events/releases/study-done-constitutional-litigation-clinic-shows-nj-e-voting-machines-very-vul

Study: Sequoia e-voting machines disturbingly easy to hack:
http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2008/10/study-sequoia-e-voting-machines-disturbingly-easy-to-hack.ars

So, Ive just changed a few votes to make it appear that I just won the vote for Chief BSer, when in reality my opponent did.
What will I most likely do, tell the world? Or keep that information "need to know" only?
MarkDS - said:
>"But all that only matters if in fact machines are
>hacked or tampered with" "And that is extremely
>rare - if not non-existent."

Thanks Mark. Your trust in your fellow man is exemplary.
However, I dont share your benificence, and neither do any of the real experts who explored this issue.
Princeton experts, Cambridge experts, Silicon Valley experts, Rutgers experts vs. the state's NJIT faculty and Sequoia corp employees..
>So unless you are into conspiracy theories there
>is only a theoretical problem not a real one.
Read the news.. there's lots of evidence this is a real problem.
>I have no desire to spend tax dollars to replace
>***perfectly serviceable machines*** (!!!!) In fact I think we
>should have just stuck with the old
>electro-mechanical ones.
WOW, there-here we agree on something!
>Too bad the Federal
>government, with an unfunded mandate, forced us to
>waste our money with yet another hysterical
>overreaction.
THANK YOU, hold that thought! But, what would you have expected from Bush, remember the 2000 election?

1:13am on Thursday, November 10, 2011

Heres a couple who ran smack dab into the Sequoia AVC Advantage hubris wall
http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-28/news/30332462_1_voting-machines-voting-machine-paper-backup

Also there is a new report on the physical seals, research done by an expert who helps secure the nations nuclear arsenal's seals. as well as other things..that need to stay shut. Pandora's box..
He knows a thing or two about seals

http://citpsite.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/oldsite-htdocs/voting/advantage/seals

More irregularities that should never have happened if it wasn't for all the fiddling..
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8902

MP, you are so definitely right. The people who elected these same bozos apparently must love getting rimmed up the behind thorough high taxes to support a corrupt Essex County Administration filled with relatives and frineds of the same elected bozos.

"Under ranked-choice or instant runoff voting, voters may select up to three candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote an immediate runoff occurs where the candidate with the fewest votes are eliminated and the voter’s next choices are redistributed among the remaining office-seekers until one passes the 50 percent threshold." That ends the election day anomalies that put candidates in office who shouldn't be.

Also, when Democrats win, don't you think the national picture has something to do with it? Not sending the wrong message, etc?

All other things being equal, a worthy candidate who is not a Democrat can get my vote. But only if they are not a Republican, because I, out of habit, associate the GOP with a lot of bad things. They try to associate themselves locally with lower taxes, but that isn't what I see them as. I see that as a cover story for the gullible.

I suspect that many currently GOP candidates would get more votes from Dems and former Dems if they changed their registrations to "Independent". I'm thinking of doing that myself. If I do, you probably won't find me voting R. Not without MAJOR changes in Washington that I doubt would ever happen.

I would HAPPILY vote for an honest Independent local ex-Republican, though, on a well-thought-out platform. Especially if we had IRV here in NJ. IRV (see above) allowing us to express our true choices, confident that we wont waste our votes.