“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge amongst the people” John Adams
“the county covered their bases… machines and Rutkowski.” That’s what Joe Olszewski, Aide to Assemblyman & Councilman Tony Chiappone and Jersey City Police officer had to say Wednesday the 26th on nj.com’s Bayonne Forum.
I asked him specifically “Joe… Do you believe THIS mayoral election was hacked?” He responded, “Sorry neil I do.”
He explained [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the possibility of missing election date from 2 districts. The rumor was that 2 physical data cartridges were missing. Some were concerned about this.
As it turns out the data catridges are not missing, however there has been an issue with getting the data out of thosed cartridges and uplaoding them [...]
…if the clerk can’t find these missing cards? I cast my vote in one of these districts and I am very concerned. - IamLegend
Editors Note: So far we have had no way of substantiating this story. We have spoken with a Jersey journal reporter who we hope investigates further.
The Bayonne Public Advocate reached a new high in traffic/viewership on Election Day. Previous to Nov 4th, we have never had more than 380 unique views in a day.
Nov5 - Unique Views: 127 - Pages: 600 - Hits: 4924
Nov6 - Unique Views: 627 - Pages: 2269 - Hits: 14856
Nov7 - Unique Views: 284 - [...]
Today at 3:30PM, former Mayoral Candidate Ray Rokicki wrote on the nj.com forum the following cryptic message:
34839. Hearing Monday
by wcwman2212, 11/6/08 15:30 ET
They are missing two cartridges and will check on them Monday when the county gets OK from judge. No new mayor till then.
As far as we understand it, election result will not [...]
This is a message from Assemblyman/Councilman At-Large Anthony Chiappone that he posted on nj.com earlier today:
I just want to take the time to thank those here who visit the forum who offered their support of Mr. Patrick Conaghan for Mayor. Pat was a sincere hardworking candidate who got out there and gave it his all. [...]
“I really feel sorry for the citizens of this community because we are in for one rough hell of a time,” Conaghan said in his concession speech in front of about 100 supporters at the Catholic War Veterans hall. “A lot of people in Bayonne are going to the poor house.”
“It’s obvious that Rutkowski hurt [...]
- Mark Smith 8,966 45.67%
- Patrick D. Conaghan 6,527 33.24%
- Richard A. Rutkowski 2,877 14.65%
- Robert F. Sloan 1,048 5.34%
- Raymond Rokicki 206 1.05%
- Personal Choice 10 0.05%
Total 19,634 100.00%
Check out the nj.com articles: Smith declares victory and Conaghan’s top supporters: Rutkowski cost him victory
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