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| William Rojas, charged with voter fraud, appears on as a 'Ballot Bearer' this Applied Building in the Second Ward |
Hoboken's political world was rocked yesterday by new voter fraud charges reaching into our 2015 municipal election. These new charges suggest that the feds are methodically working their way closer; 2015 is well within the 5 year statute of limitations to prosecute alleged vote-buying schemes.
The United States of America v William Rojas identifies a "Candidate 1" on whose behalf the alleged vote-buying took place.
GA has scoured ELEC reports of winners and losers in 2015's municipal race and have not found William Rojas reported on any. Thus far.
GA has scoured ELEC reports of winners and losers in 2015's municipal race and have not found William Rojas reported on any. Thus far.
However, Mr. Rojas, a Fox Hills resident, shows up once as a ballot "bearer" on Hudson County Board of Elections Report for Hoboken Mail-in Ballots. He returned a mail-in ballot for a 2nd Ward resident (District 1) in Applied Building 54 11th Street. GA has been unable to find this resident reported on any campaign's ELEC report, thus far. And, these are facts not evidence of an alleged crime.
As alleged in the complaint, three witnesses: Voter 1, Voter 2 and Voter 3 report similar allegations against Mr. Rojas.
VOTER 1 ALLEGATIONS
2 CENTS
A 5th Ward resident was reported as bearing ballots in the 2nd Ward is not evidence of a crime, and Mr. Rojas is entitled to due process.
If Voters 1, 2 and 3 are 2nd Ward residents, it raises a host of questions about the "PAC" that allegedly paid them. Again: neither Rojas nor this 2nd Ward resident whose ballot he collected appear on any ELEC that GA can find. Did I miss something?
Give it a try: https://www.elec.state.nj.us/ELECReport/searchcandidate.aspx
I'll bet candidate-1 and individual-1 are the same person! I'm off the hook! When lying loser Michael the terrible lawyer no one should ever hire Cohen testifies to congress next month, just remember he's talking about someone in Hoboken, not ME!
ReplyDeleteAnybody seen Matt C in Hoboken? Been away a lonnnnnng time.
ReplyDeleteDid I read correctly that Rojas brought the actual completed ballot to the voter? How did Rojas and the unidentified individual whi accompanied him get the ballot which should have been mailed to the voter?
ReplyDeleteThere have been rumors over the years of people intercepting ballots in the mail room of senior buildings. Reading between the lines it sounds like that could have happened here.
I still say they should've looked more deeply into this little operation up at the time of the "terror flyer".
ReplyDeleteI realize that everyone at Camp Butt-Hurt, aka the GiaFuscos, has decided to base the sad remainder of their adult lives on the idea of Bhalla as the devious mastermind whose evil justifies all their pointless and anti-democratic excesses. But I'm actually talking about professional law enforcement here rather than obsessive grudge nursing.
Why is a guy from Nutley walking around Hoboken with fully filled out VBMs (in 2017)? Why isn't he on anyone's ELEC report? (I checked.)
Is he just someone who loves good voter turnout so much that he doesn't care where he makes it happen, or if he gets paid, or if he breaks the law doing it?
We all know that Bhalla will be accused of the flyer 1000 times on the dead blog before this story gets mentioned once. That's why it's a dead blog after all. But for people who still have the lights on, this is very significant unsolved mystery and hopefully gets more attention now that prosecutors are once again interested in what goes on around here. Someone got paid to do this just as someone got paid for the flyer. By whom?
Never heard that story. Can u provide a link?
DeleteJust saw it was a link. Sorry. The story talks about VBM applications - not ballots. There's nothing illegal about filling in the info in VBM applications for the voters (presumably to make it easier for voters) and encouraging voters to use them. Applications are not ballots and the rules are different.
DeletePaying people to vote a certain way is a crime. Facilitating VBM applications and encouraging voters to vote by VBM is not.
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ReplyDeleteWas one of the VBM applications and subsequent ballot from 54 11th Street filled out IN ALL CAPS??!!
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