As Was Feared: Absentee Voter Fraud is Realized In NJ Governor’s Race

John Fund sounded the alarm, yesterday, pointing out the heavy ACORN involvement, and thousands of suspect absentee ballots throughout NJ.

Election Journal is covering the election today:

Throughout the morning, EJ has received tips regarding voters who have shown up to the polls today, to find that someone has already cast their ballot through the absentee process.

They were able to catch up with one of those voters – meet Mark Allen:

Tip of the iceberg, most likely.

See also Dan Riehl for a report on voter intimidation featuring gangbangers and felons in NJ.

Corzine doesn’t care how dirty he wins this thing.

MEANWHILE:

Dems are busy in New York drumming up the usual hollow, and fakey cries of voter intimidation, partially to distract from the genuine instances on their side, partially to distract from the fact that they’re losing:

The aptly named Crooks and Liars howls:

Police called in to NY-23 polling stations because of voter intimidation by teabaggers!

..alleging  “overzealous electioneering” by “teabaggers” who are yelling “anti-choice stuff” at voters:

The NY Daily News story reports:

It’s getting ugly out there.

I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O’Neill called it “voter intimidation”) by Doug Hoffman supporters.

“We’ve gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters,” said O’Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party’s GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.
“Apparently, there’s some woman claiming to be a commissioner,” O’Neill continued. “Commissioner of what, I don’t know. She’s from Texas, I think, and she won’t leave.”

“This is not the way we roll in the North Country.”

What sort of  intimidating “anti-choice” stuff do you suppose they were yelling?:  “Vote for the pro-life candidate!” or something along those lines?  Damn. Scary stuff. I’d be intimidated too.

But what’s this?

An update to the story:

UPDATE: Joy Yearout, spokeswoman for the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life group that has endorsed Hoffman and is providing some 200 volunteers for him today, called in to provide “some additional information.”

Yearout said SBL has people working polling sites at 100 precincts in the 23rd for Hoffman. They’re handing out sample ballots so voters know where to find his name – remember, he’s on the Conservative line, which is Row D.

“At least three of our volunteers have been threatened with police when they’re not doing anything wrong,” Yearout said. “They haven’t seen any Democrats. No one for Owens.” “So, apparently, the poll workers who are Owens supporters are doing the only thing they can do: Intimidate. And they’re doing that by calling the police. Nobody’s been arrested because nobody’s doing anything wrong.”

UPDATE:

This is what real intimidation/suppression looks like:

EXCLUSIVE: Hoffman Plattsburgh Precinct Worker’s Tires Slashed

UPDATE II:

R.S. McCain issues a chilling  report detailing a confrontation he had with one of the electioneering “teabaggers” in Watertown:

The Watertown, N.Y., hotel that has been home of the National Desk for the past two days is across the street from a polling place. I just strolled over this morning and was greeted on the sidewalk by elderly volunteers handing out Hoffman sample ballots.

No such activity on the part of the Bill Owens campaign was evident at this particular polling place. Look at the sample ballot and you can see why this is so important to the Hoffman campaign: Owens is on lines A and E, Dede Scozzafava is on lines B and C, whereas Doug Hoffman’s name appears only on line D.

He doesn’t mention in his report whether any “anti-choice stuff” was shouted at him.

UPDATE III:

Ace has some good news for the NY, and NJ races.

UPDATE IV:

R.S. McCain has an update on the alleged tire slashing:

It was at 3:45 p.m. that Ali Akbar got up his report of tires being slashed in Plattsburgh, via a Blackberry message. It appears, based on closer examination of the tire, that the Hoffman campaign worker ran over a bottle. But whatever the truth of this incident, I was too busy eluding the New York State Police to worry about it.