Voting by mail is a convenience that more Hoboken residents are utilizing, yet VBMs still account for a small percentage of overall votes cast in The Mile Square.
For various reasons, GA was curious to see how the proportion of Mike DeFusco's city-wide VBM totals stacked up to those VBMs cast by his campaign workers. The results were astonishing.
First, the VBM report GA used in this analysis was current to November 2, 2017-- 5 days prior to the election. All Mail-in-ballot requests would have been received. (Late this afternoon, GA obtained the FINAL report, so stay tuned for a more complete analysis).
For this analysis of VBM requests, GA cross referenced DeFusco's campaign workers with the Mail-in Ballot report to see how many of his campaign workers who are eligible to vote in Hoboken requested VBMs.
For this analysis of VBM requests, GA cross referenced DeFusco's campaign workers with the Mail-in Ballot report to see how many of his campaign workers who are eligible to vote in Hoboken requested VBMs.
So, what did the analysis show?
Nearly half of Team DeFusco's campaign's GOTV workers, canvassers and staff eligible to vote in Hoboken requested mail-in ballots.
That is YUGE.
To understand how yuge that is compared to city-wide voting patterns, the 4 top-vote getters in the 2017 mayoral race got from 3.3% to 18% of their total votes by mail, as follows:
- Jen Giattino got 2,537 votes total; 84 were cast by VBM, or 3.3% of her vote total
- Ravi Bhalla got 5,041 votes total; 195 were cast by VBMs or 3.8%
- Mike DeFusco got 4,557 votes total, 325 were cast by VBMs or 7.1%
- Anthony Romano got 2,804 votes total, 506 were VBMs or 18%
- Yellow highlights are VBM requestors for the 2017 Hoboken election.
- Grey highlights means not-eligible to vote in Hoboken.
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HUDSON COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS
HOBOKEN MAIL IN BALLOT REPORT
Hoboken Mail- in-Ballot Report Nov 2 2017 by GrafixAvenger on Scribd
This is the person working with Jen, Tiff, and Peter. This is the city councilperson horsecrap carries water for not to mention DeformusGiganticus. They are so blinded by their ambition and spite that they refuse to acknowledge they now back the very evil they used to oppose.
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget the 244 paid workers (4th and 5th ward residents) reported on Mike Russo's ELEC for his 2015 unopposed election. Yes, 244 paid workers who could only vote for Eduardo Gonzalez or Ruben Ramos. Jen, Tiff and Peter in a coalition with the vote harvesters DeFusco and Ramos.
Delete"Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught."- Alexandre Dumas
From HCV: MSTA spokesman Ron Simonici told The Hudson Reporter back in 2014 that his organization had donated around $70,000 to Let the People Decide since 2011, noting that the PAC was effective in getting out the vote for the rent control question in the 4th and 5th Wards.
ReplyDelete“Nothing in my mind ever made me think that it’s anything more than a ‘get out the vote’ organization,” he is quoted as saying at the time.
The "grain of salt" that comes with requires an entire double-wide 40' flat-bed to haul it from place to place.
The same machinery is poised to attack the run-off referendum and the mid-November run-offs ever after. Anyone who has spent more than an hour understanding Hoboken knows that. But Team Butt-Hurt is too busy with Dawn/Stan whataboutism and nostalgic references to the bygone era when Zimmer was trying to get on the 9-0 pro-old guard council to bother.
In the Team Butt-Hurt re-written version of Casablanca, Bogart concludes that the problems of three little people are actually far more important than stopping fascism and flies off to Portugal with Ingrid Bergman; Paul Henreid is executed on the spot by the Gestapo. Claude Raines gets a promotion. The film ends with a 40 minute speech from Councilwoman Fisher about making hard choices.
Folks tend to focus in these discussions on VBM's but it's important to remember that the misconduct is in eating people to vote a certain way - not in the manner in which they cast their tainted vote (VBM or at the p0lls.)
ReplyDeleteVBM's made the fraud administratively easier to effectuate and provided a means for the perps to ensure that they got what they paid for. But they also create an easier to follow trail for law enforcement particularly given the brazenness with which the operation was conducted.
But vote buying, especially in the HHA and senior buildings was endemic in Hoboken long before VBM's became a "thing." If we put an end to VBM fraud and just go back to the old days of "hiring" hundreds of "workers" to stand around wearing t-shirts and vote at the polls that will not usher in a new era of suddenly honest elections. All it will do is empower Ramos at the expense of Raia.
That's paying people not eating people. Love spell check!
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