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Hoboken principals in conference right now at Board of Elections Office
By Max Pizarro | June 10th, 2009 - 3:32pmThe legal brains and attendant suppporters are in a conference right now at the Hudson County Board of Elections Office trying to figure out what to do next in this prolonged mayoral contest between At-Large Councilman Peter Cammarano and 4th Ward Councilwoman Dawn Zimmer.
As of this moment, Cammarano's up by 67 votes, 6,043 to Zimmer's 5,976, according to Jerry Lore at the Hoboken Clerk's Office.
But that number is not final.
"There are 150 provisional ballots that have not yet been counted and they will not be tallied until tomororw - latest Friday," Lore told PolitickerNJ.com.
The ongoing conference between the mayoral combatants is the chief reason for the delay in the provisional tally, Lore added.
Cammarano declared victory last night after 479 absentee ballots went in his favor versus Zimmer's 147 absentees, but sources in the Zimmer camp today say it's far from over. The fact that Zimmer led by 244 votes before the clerk's office considered absentee ballots and the city's final, 36th district, which the county clerk's office recorded late, throws the absentees into particular focus moving forward, acccording to sources in the Zimmer camp.
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The math does not look good for Zimmer.
The math does not look good for Zimmer.
Cammarano should conceed
I am confident any legal action will bring uncomfortable light to voting irregularities.
It is known, that in the past individuals have voted in the elections even though they didn't live in Hoboken any longer. An investigation will certainly find fraud here.
Many of his Steven's absentee votes are going to be iffy at best.
It appears to me he bought many of his votes. Look at the Elec report he just filed. On May 12, he 'hired' 700 'canvas workers' There are only 50,000 people in Hoboken. When he finally files this elections Elecs how many will there be? What sort of uncomfortable corellation will there be between absentees and the payouts to 'workers'
Doesn't pass the "Smell Test"
Gee - a candidate who gets less than 49% of the machine votes somehow manages to get nearly 77% of the absentee ballots.
And he just happens to be the darling of the county machine.
And that county is Hudson.
P.S. - number problems
Max, The numbers in your story don't add up. When I subtract the 147 from Zimmers's 5,976 and the 470 from Cammarano's 6,043, I get:
Z = 5829
C = 5564
Which is also what it says on the County Website:
www.hudsoncountyclerk.org/cgi-bin/election.pl
That is a difference of 265, not 244.
Also, it's been reported that there were about 800 absentee ballots (and the number I was told is 775), but
147 + 470 = 617
Do we know what happened to the rest? Were they rejected? You wouldn't normally expect a lot of undervotes for the marquee race in this situation.
Carl
Carl, thank you for the constructive comment. The 244 number was from earlier in the evening when there were 35 districts reporting. that number went to 265 after all 36 districts reported at the end of the night.
Max
Happy to help.
Thanks for keeping us updated on this story, and keep up the good work.
cammarrano witnessed to pay people for votes
at least one person is saying that a person was witnessed demanding payment for votes outside cammarrano hq. i know we can say this is heresay, but this isn't a court of law. given the statistics cited about regarding nearly 1,000 canvas workers, is this really a surprise?
shame, shame, shame. shame, old school degenerates engaged in hudson county politics as usual. shame uneducated fools who have no integrity.
change is coming though. the "yuppies" are taking over and bringing integrity and education to the process of governance.