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Chris Christie's Next Case: Who Stole My Election?
JOHN FUND The race for governor in New Jersey is so close in final polls that it may well end up in a recount -- the 1981 election did and was decided by less than 1,800 votes. If there is a recount, you can bet disputes about absentee ballots will loom large. Moreover, if serious allegations of ...
Voter fraud in New Jersey
faustasblog.com — As you know, I am pessimistic on today’s election; however, John Fund has more troublesome news, Chris... Christie’s Next Case: Who Stole My Election? Absentee voter fraud may play a significant role in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election. Plenty of reasons exist for ... (more) Voter fraud in New Jersey
What Christie's Win in N.J. Means for the Future of the G.O.P.
blog.newsweek.com — Well, what do I know? Last Friday, I predicted on this blog that incumbent Democratic Governor Jon... Corzine would defeat GOP challenger Chris Christie in my home state of New Jersey--a "wildly reckless prediction," as I put it, but a prediction all the ... (more) What Christie's Win in N.J. Means for the Future of the ...
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JOHN FUND: Absentee voter fraud may play a significant role in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election….
Instapundit — ... JOHN FUND: Absentee voter fraud may play a significant role in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election. If that happens, I’m sure the Justice Department will be right on it. ...

Prediction Problems
Sound Politics — ... . (It won't be close enough so that the usual, or even more than usual, election fraud can affect the results.) Mayor Bloomberg, Republican turned independent, will defeat the Democrat in New York city by ...

They're already stealing the election in New Jersey
Betsy's PageJohn Fund details all the ways that the Democrats are counting on fraud or, at the very least, stretching the election rules, to help them in the tight election there. The race for governor in New Jersey is so close in final polls that it may well end up in a recount -- the 1981 election did and was decided by less than 1,800 votes. If there is a recount, you can bet disputes about absentee ballots will loom large. Moreover, if serious allegations of fraud emerge, you can also expect less-than-vigorous investigation by the Obama Justice Department -- which showed just how ...

Video: John Fund on Glenn Beck – Massive Voter Fraud Looming In New Jersey
Nice Deb — ... Brace yourselves for a disappointing outcome in New Jersey. Even though the unpopular Corzine has been falling behind in the polls, groups associated with ACORN have been as busy as beavers working behind the scenes registering “voters” and engaging in absentee voter registration fraud. John Fund has been keeping a close eye on the situation, and doesn’t like what he sees: Plenty of reasons exist for suspecting absentee fraud may play a significant role in tomorrow’s Garden State contests. Groups associated with ...

Shorter John Fund
Balloon Juice — ... “ACORN and black people stole the NJ gubernatorial election that hasn’t happened yet. Hispanics, also too.” ...

OBAMA VISITED CAMDEN AND NEWARK TO FACILITATE VOTER FRAUD AND HELP CORZINE STEAL NJ
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... BECAUSE THESE ARE THE TWO CITIES WHERE ACORN/SEIU/DEMOCRAT MACHINE BALLOT STUFFING IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE AT AN UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL AND THEY ARE GOING TO EXPLAIN IT AWAY BY SAYING IT WAS THE OBAMA EFFECT. ...

John Fund on Potential Vote Fraud in New Jersey, and Media Matters on John Fund
Election Law — November 02, 2009 John Fund on Potential Vote Fraud in New Jersey, and Media Matters on John Fund I told you to keep an eye on this , and now John Fund does not disappoint . Nor does Media Matters , fact checking Fund's appearance on Glenn Beck. Posted by Rick Hasen at November 2, 2009 09:21 PM

John Fund Running Out of Fresh 'Voter Fraud' Lies
The BRAD BLOG — ... Trouble is, the incident that Fund claims is going on right now actually happened in Philadelphia 16 years ago, as even Fund himself admitted in his own WSJ column published just hours before his appearance on Fox today... ...

Corzine Tries to Win Ugly* in New Jersey
GayPatriot — ... 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 ...

The Stealing Of New Jersey
Pat Dollard | Young AmericansWall Street Journal: By JOHN FUND The race for governor in New Jersey is so close in final polls that it may well end up in a recount — the 1981 election did and was decided by less than 1,800 votes. If there is a recount, you can bet disputes about absentee ballots will loom large. Moreover, if serious allegations of fraud emerge, you can also expect less-than-vigorous investigation by the Obama Justice Department — which showed just how seriously it takes such allegations when it walked away from an open-and-shut voter ...

Voter fraud in New Jersey
Fausta's Blog — As you know, I am pessimistic on today’s election; however, John Fund has more troublesome news, Chris Christie’s Next Case: Who Stole My Election? Absentee voter fraud may play a significant role in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election. Plenty of reasons exist for suspecting absentee fraud may play a significant role in tomorrow’s Garden State contests. Groups associated with Acorn in neighboring Pennsylvania and New York appear to have moved into the state. An independent candidate for mayor in Camden has ...

What's New? Lacking Evidence, Conservatives Again Stoke Voter Fraud Fears
TPMMuckraker — ... but around the country, entitled: "How easy is it to steal an election with absentee ballots?" The only tangible new piece of evidence that Fox came up with was this: a former Denver Elections Commissioner, who now runs a website devoted to stoking fears about corrupt elections, told viewers that some people shoveling her driveway said they'd heard that "six or seven absentee ballots were sent to dead people." • Then, the centerpiece: A Wall Street Journal column by John Fund, the GOP's perennial voter fraud Cassandra, asserting that "plenty of ...

Election Integrity: Nope, Nothing To Worry About Here
Shot in the Dark — ... conventional wisdom shows this as a bellwether for the first year of the Obama Ascenscion administration. And so the Dems will have the whole army of lawyers and professional spin mercenaries – the same crowd that won them the Minnesota Senate race last year – esconced in every Best Western from Fort Lee to Cape May, ready to duke it out over every single vote ballot to try to retain control of a state the Dems regard as marginally less “theirs” than Saint Paul or Berkeley. And that’s just the good news ; John Fund notes that ACORN has taken time off from moonlighting as a ...

Jersey Barriers
Wizbang — ... technically, long after the last minute -- they pulled Robert Torricelli off the ballot barely a month before the election and swapped in Frank Lautenberg on the ballot. Well, this time it appears they're being a bit more subtle. Now the plan is to have a pool of fraudulent absentee ballots on hand that they can pull out for their governor should Corzine appear to be heading for the defeat he so richly deserves. For this off-year election, the number of requests for absentee ballots is up by several orders of magnitude -- and a good chunk of them have signatures that don't ...

WSJ gears up to smear NJ election system
MNpublius.com — ... Groups associated with Acorn in neighboring Pennsylvania and New York appear to have moved into the state. An independent candidate for mayor in Camden has already leveled charges that voter fraud is occurring in his city. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party in New Jersey is taking advantage of a new loosely written vote-by-mail law to pressure county clerks not to vigorously use signature checks to evaluate the authenticity of absentee ballots, the only verification procedure allowed. [Wall Street Journal opinion section] ...

Don't Expect DOJ Monitors to Report Voter Fraud -- By: NRO Staff
The Corner on National Review Online — ... John Fund has a very informative column about voter fraud in New Jersey in the Wall Street Journal today. Fund raises doubts about the willingness of the Holder Justice Department to do anything about possible fraud, and he is right to be concerned. When I was at the Justice Department during the Bush administration, the Left constantly complained about the fact that John Ashcroft had made prosecuting voter-fraud cases a priority on par with prosecuting Voting Rights Act cases. The correct view is that the Justice Department has an equal ...

Voter Fraud Video
California Conservative — ... If Mr. Allen’s testimony is allowed and the judge finds his testimony credible, the Democrats’ attorneys will have some explaining to do: ...

“Fired Up” for Tonight’s Results?
Flopping Aces — ... Keep your fingers crossed and watch out for those ACORNs in NJ! One good sign: The White House is ...

ACORN: We're Not Even Working In New Jersey
TPMMuckraker — ... In a column published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, John Fund sounded the alarm about the threat from ACORN -- but a close look reveals that even here he was forced to rely on guilt by association to make the case. ...

Larwyn's Linx: Blogospheric Election Night Round-Up
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... Election 2009 [image] Blogospheric Election Night Round-Up : Driscoll Indies Fuel GOP Victories in VA, NJ : Times Hoffman Comes Up Short in NY-23 : BigGov The GOP Elite's $1 Million Lesson : Malkin The Strange Case of NY-23 : PJM (Simon) In NY-23, Conservatives Win : RedState GOP: Clarity, Not Civil War : Riehl Tweet of the Day : Tapper 1993 versus 2009 : PoliPundit NY-23: Boots on the Ground : RSM Who Stole My Election? : WSJ As Was Feared: Absentee Voter Fraud in NJ : Nice Deb ...

Obama Rolls the Dice and Craps Out in New Jersey
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The Fraud of Voting Scandals
The American Prospect Articles — Two days before New Jersey's gubernatorial election, Wall Street Journal columnist and voter-fraud hype-man John Fund warned the election might be stolen away from Republican Chris Christie through voter fraud. "Local politicos," he wrote, "tell me Philly operatives associated in the past with Acorn may now be advising their Jersey cousins on how to perform such vote harvesting." That's quite a hedge -- and understandably so, given that ACORN ...

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