Did ACORN Steal Absentee Ballots In New Jersey?
A New Jersey hospital is denying accusations that ACORN workers have been inside collecting absentee ballots for the state’s gubernatorial race.
East Orange General Hospital CEO Kevin Slavin said Tuesday that “all proper protocols” were followed as part of its program to allow patients to vote via absentee ballot, and that no third-party groups were signing up patients.
“Other than the specifically designated and trained staff to hand out and collect these ballots, no advocacy groups were authorized nor allowed access to the hospital to hand out absentee ballots to patients as has been recently reported in unsubstantiated blogs and on political talk shows,” he said in a written statement.
Slavin was referring to reports that claimed people wearing ACORN shirts were spotted distributing and collecting absentee ballots at a hospital in the area. The Wall Street Journal reported this Monday, as did BigGovernment.com — the Web site that publicized recent undercover operations in which ACORN workers were filmed giving tax advice to two activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.
The claim comes on top of reports that the New Jersey Democratic State Committee has admitted to paying for a robo-call promoting independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett and criticizing Republican Chris Christie.
Lawyers representing Christie on Tuesday called for an “immediate investigation,” saying unless the robo-calls were conducted in coordination with Daggett, “they are not permitted by law.”
The ACORN accusation potentially can be traced in part to an e-mail, allegedly from the husband of a hospital worker, claiming his wife saw and spoke with the activists.
A New Jersey GOP official provided the e-mail to FoxNews.com but could not corroborate its authenticity.
“ACORN is working the hospitals in Orange in Newark. Registering up to 10 people for absentee ballots and submitting it for them on their behalf,” the e-mail said.
If true, the official said, this would be a clear “oversight” on the part of the hospital.
New Jersey law allows third parties to collect a limited amount of absentee ballots, but the official said it would be troubling if activists were involved.
“There’s no way to tell if there was any pressure involved,” the official said.
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Why haven’t we heard a peep from Holder on this, and why haven’t we heard anything from Federal Election Comission Investigators, FBI, Department of Justice???? This is a huge penetration of the government from the Presidential election to this insult in New Jersey. People need to start going to prison for a very long time.
The win that should have been the most important we lost. The one that has a vote in Congress now NY-23. So now they have another Dem vote to push thur all the crapp N Tax, healthcare, and card check. Gov’s do vote on that stuff.
Your wrong about this one, because even though the dem won he is much more conservative than the republican. We truly smoked a snake out of the grass by destroying the republican.Now in 2010 we can take the seat back with a real republican.You have to sacrifice some in war.
No so fast Marsha. NY-23 showed that this isn’t about Democrat vs. Republican. It shows that the new conservative movement and “tea-baggers” have some staying power and are making a differennce and will continue to make a difference and are looking to throw out all liberals/socialists/marxists - including the ones who currently have an “(R)” after their name. You don’t just get our vote any more because you call yourself a Republican.
If we did nothing, a Democrat was going to win the election regardless (hello - Scozzafava had endorsements from Arcon, SEIU, the far-left Working Families Party, etc. - she was NOT a Republican in any sense of the word).
We have to start by cleaning up our own mess-of-a-party first so that we have a full slate of candidates that truely represent over 75% of America and its core, conservative, values. It’s a warning shot to all liberal “Republicans” and blue-dog Democrats. Fall in line or get crushed by this new wave of conservatism.
That’s exactly right. She was a marxist plant as far as I’m concerned. The GOP better get it’s act together, and soon.
Hopefully, some sort of investigation can be done on a state level since the u. s justice department won’t pursue any type of prosecutions for illegal election activity.