Number Of N.J. Voters Down From Last Year

voting boothThe number of voters eligible to participate in Tuesday’s election is down from a year ago. New Jersey Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells said the state has 5.22 million registered voters, down from 5.35 million in 2008 when the presidential race brought a registration surge. There are still more Democrats than Republicans — 1.77 million to 1.06 million. But Republicans have closed the gap a bit, adding some 5,000 voters since last year. Meanwhile, the number of Democrats dropped by a similar amount.

Nearly half of the voters — 2.51 million — are registered as “unaffiliated.”

Wells also said that as of Thursday more than 179,000 ballots had been issued in the state’s vote-by-mail program and more than 100,000 of them had been returned. AP

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16 COMMENTS

  1. There was a RAINBOW Shabbos morning in lakewood.
    It’s אסור to vote this year in Lakewood for local or state candidates.
    Anyone concerned about the ציבור or their high taxes in Lakewood should stay away from the voting booth and DON”T VOTE.
    Besides the tremendous ביטול תורה

  2. Yudel, I am glad to hear about the rainbow. I am sure it looked beatifull. Thank you….I disagree with you about the voting. In this very close election, Cristie’s victory can very well lead to the reduction in the social aid programs that a lot of yungerlait so depend on.

  3. why is it ossur to vote for christie he will give vouchers according to agduah and will lower property taxes and income taxes .Which social program will he cut foodstamps, hud,and wic are all federal programs is theonly progams thet are state are for liberal arts which the frum oilem doesnt see a penny corzine we know why its ossur toaava marraige and its showing support to obama and its supporting public healthcare which has a death squed on it so you could be a gorem rotzach

  4. There is not enough backing for vouchers, so forget it.
    We made all of these “chesh’bonois” and calculations, it all came to the conclussion DON”T VOTE-Save the community & the KLAL.
    We don’t mislead, never did, never will-Check our record.

  5. Chaim: as far as those ‘federal’ programs you mentioned, note that they are administered throught the state and in some cases more than half of their funding comes from the state.

    Yudel: please stop your silly kanyous. Bitul Torah???? Who are you kidding…

  6. youngerman4corzine ,how much do you get paid by the VAAD to sit and comment here ,the lakewood tzibbur are not as foolish as the askanim and vaad think they are .A campaign promise to change zoning for a few mosdos is not going to make up for paying the highest property tax in the nation and tack on all the fees that corzine plans to impose if elected to pay for his programs.

  7. anon 11:35: You want to know how much Vaad pays me for my comments. The answer is a lot of money…It pays for you to join.

    I do know that our Tsibbur is not foolish, though apparently some od the yachidim are, especially those that think that the state government has something to do with zoning decisions and real estate taxes.

  8. The best argument they can come up with to vote for Corslime is that everyones programs will be cut. That is debateable, but what is for sure is that Corslime wont ever cut taxes, never control any crazy spending, or give up his treifa shitas on abortion and toieva marraige. Its pathetic that the only Rav in town to have the guts to speak up about this blatant Chillul Hashem is R Simcha Bunim Cohen Shlita. Let us all ask a posek who has no negeois before we blindly follow recomendations. Let us all listen to who the Torah wants us to vote for! Hashem Yishmirainu Umatzilainu Mikol Ra!

  9. i’m sorry but yungermen for corzine is wrong foodstamps is administrated through the county and hud is administrated through ltrap and lha straight to the federal govermentwic goe throushthe state but check your facts the funding comes from the federal goverment the stste only decides what to give and even if the state would add afew dollars wic paysd only afew doolars per person under five nothing compared to the lowest # for school vouchars which is 5 thousand dollars per year and also yudal if christie wins its a slap to obama’s health care which has a death panel on it so if you don”t vote for christie you are a gorem rotzach

  10. Chaim dear, you are wrong. Obama’s health care’s so called death panels are no different if not better than the insurance companies’ ones.

    If you want to vote for a guy who hatched the Gestapo-like raid this summer, go ahead I cannot help you, though the help you need badly…

  11. youngerman4 corzine
    you are brilliant you know better than the ntire tzibbur what is best for them even as taxes go up up up and fees and surcharges are the norm you insist on voting for corzine at behest of your cronies on the vaad it seems you want to get in with the big players in town sacrificing the tzibbur for there own gain a zoning change on some land.

  12. according toyou yungerman for corzine you weren’t allowed to vote for Guiliany for mayor since all the frum people he imprisoned as federal prosecuter imagine ny with another 4 years for dinkins the fbi was trying to catch corruption just because your frum doesn’t give you a heter to be corrupt obviously you support stealing from the goverment thats the real reason you want corzine so you and some power brokers could steal money from lakewood and nj while everybody else pays higher property taxes ENOUGH CORRUPTION ENOUGH RETZICHA ENOUGH GILUY ARYOUS SAY NO TO CORZINE

  13. Chaim: I do recall Guiliani aggressively prosecuting frum criminals, and I do think that at times he abused his prosecutorial discretion, like in the case of Milliken. But he was not trying to get the Jews. He was going after everybody, particularly against Italian organized crime elements.
    Compare it with Chrsitie’s entraping of Syrian community…

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