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NEW JERSEY’S NEW MATH
BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — The Bergen County Clerk’s Office latest updated vote totals have offered a clearer picture of how mail-in ballots affected some of the state’s tightest races, but also confused some following along with the results.
The totals published by the clerk’s office are still unofficial, and not all vote-by-mail ballots have been counted. However, those that have been counted have been beneficial to Democrats in Bergen County, including in the governor’s race, as well as Bergen County Clerk and Sheriff.
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Unofficial totals show that 14,788 people voted early, and 208,360 registered voters showed up at polls across the county on election day. But those totals now show that 48,038 people voted by mail, a statistic that is proving to be the source of confusion for some.
The vote-by-mail totals were published previously on the clerk’s website, but in a different file than the election day and early voting totals. Now, the clerk’s office has combined all three of those numbers into one document.
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Those totals can be found here.
Two files are created as part of the “standard operating procedure” at the Clerk’s Office, which allows officials to “update results as they are received in ‘real time’ for voters.”
But why the separate files?
Clerk’s Office officials told Patch that it’s because three different elections offices are responsible for the vote gathering and publication process.
The County Clerk is responsible for early voting results and election day voting machines. The Board of Elections is responsible for vote-by-mail ballots, and the superintendent and Board of Elections are responsible for provisional ballots.
“On Election Night, the Board of Elections shares with us their PDF of their Unofficial Results of what they were able to count throughout the day,” clerk’s office officials said.
“That PDF was posted to our website as a separate link. As those results are not coming from our office, they are not integrated into the County Clerk Election Day Machine Results at that time. Therefore, the public can view the two separate results files from the Board of Elections and the County Clerk’s Office to gather the unofficial results.”
The clerk’s office has since compiled the unofficial data it has currently into one document, which is why election-hungry New Jersey residents are now seeing some 40,000 mail-in votes added to the count.
Mail-In Voting Favors Democrats In Bergen County
Mail-in votes have swung races locally and county-wide, which is likely why concern and confusion have popped up.
In Fair Lawn, Democratic Deputy Mayor Josh Reinitz garnered more than 1,100 mail-in votes, swinging the tally in his favor in what was previously a very close race.
The same is true for the Democratic council candidates in Glen Rock, where Jill Orlich and Mary Barchetto both garnered more than 600 mail-in votes.
In the race for both County Clerk and Sheriff, mail-in votes will likely be the difference in both incumbents — Anthony Cureton and John Hogan — remaining in their role.
Read more: Bergen County Sheriff Election: Where Do Cureton, Kugler Stand?
Read more: Incumbent John Hogan Leads Bridget Kelly In Bergen Co. Clerk Race
Still, despite the votes painting a clearer picture for races across the state, official results aren’t yet available in Bergen County, and it’s not yet clear when the vote will be finalized.
Mail-in ballots can be received and counted until Nov. 13, according to the Bergen County Clerk’s Office, and the vote total will be made official no later than Nov. 15.
THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU HILLARY CLINTON – STEELE DOSSIER FABRICATED
John Bull Durham is close on her heals. She can run but can’t hide?
Special counsel John Durham’s indictment of Igor Danchenko, the principal source for the bogus Steele dossier used by the FBI as a basis for the Trump-Russia investigation, further illustrates that Durham has his sights set on the Clinton campaign.
Danchenko has been charged with five counts of lying to the FBI in interviews during 2017, as the bureau struggled in futility to verify outlandish allegations that Donald Trump and his campaign were clandestine agents of the Kremlin. Those allegations were compiled in the so-called Steele dossier, which the FBI relied on in obtaining surveillance warrants from a secret federal court.
The dossier was generated by the Clinton campaign. Its principal author was former British spy Christopher Steele. Steele’s main source was Danchenko, a Russian native based in the United States who worked at the Brookings Institution — a Washington think-tank whose former president, Strobe Talbott, is a college friend of Bill Clinton’s who worked in the Clinton State Department.
At Brookings, Danchenko worked with Fiona Hill, later a member of Trump’s National Security Council (and a key witness in the first Trump impeachment over the unrelated Ukraine controversy). It was through Hill that Danchenko became acquainted with Steele, who ran a London-based intelligence firm upon leaving MI-6, the British spy service.
Durham’s indictment alleges that Danchenko lied about two major points.
First, he fabricated the claim that the president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce informed him that, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump was involved in a well-developed “conspiracy of cooperation” with the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In reality, the indictment says, this conversation never happened.
The Chamber president is not identified by name in the indictment. After the Steele dossier became public, however, there was intense speculation that the Chamber’s founder, Sergey Millian, was a Steele dossier source. As I recounted in my book on Russiagate, “Ball of Collusion,” Millian denied being a source and trashed the dossier as “fake news created by sick minds.”
Danchenko is also alleged to have concealed that one of his sources for the information he provided to Steele was a longtime Democratic Party operative who was close to the Clintons’ — having worked on both of Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaigns and Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign. This source was revealed on Thursday to be Chuck Dolan, a public-relations executive who had Russian contacts, and referred to as “PR Executive-1” in the indictment.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign generated the Steele dossier.
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IS THE NJ GOVERNOR RACE BEING STOLEN IN FRONT OF OUR VERY OWN EYES?
New Jersey Republican Ciattarelli makes it a tight race against favored Dem Murphy
Republican Jack Ciattarelli refuses to concede New Jersey gubernatorial race
CIATTARELLI CAMPAIGN REACTS TO AP DECISION: ‘IRRESPONSIBLE’ TO CALL VOTE THIS EARLY FOR MURPHY
But Ciattarelli argued that “after 2.4 million ballots” were counted, “there are still tens of thousands of vote-by-mail and provisional ballots yet to be counted.”
The process to count the remaining ballots could drag on for weeks, with ballots arriving by Nov. 8 still eligible to be counted. The GOP candidate could also call for a recount, which under New Jersey law he would have to request within 17 days if there is reason to believe that an error has been made in counting the votes of that election.
“I don’t want people falling victim to wild conspiracy theories or online rumors,” Ciattarelli said in the video. “While consideration is paid to any and all credible reports, please don’t believe everything you see or read online.”
Campaigns ended Election Night without either claiming victory
Bill Hemmer gives update on New Jersey governor race
Fox News analyst has the latest on the tight race in New Jersey
The race for governor in New Jersey remained too close to call Wednesday, with Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli neck-and-neck as the state continues to count votes.
A significant amount of votes remained in Camden, Essex and Union counties, and in particular, significant mail and provisional votes left in Essex County. These votes are expected to favor Murphy.
The two waged tense campaigns, and Murphy presented himself as a solid progressive. Ciattarelli tried to paint Murphy as out of touch with the average voter and was critical of his leadership during the COVID-19 epidemic.
The campaigns ended their Election Night parties without either claiming victory. Both struck optimistic tones with their supporters.
“We’ve sent a message to the entire nation. This is what I love about this state: Every single time it’s gone too far off track, the people of this state have pushed, pulled and prodded it right back to where it needs to be,” Ciattarelli said.
Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey, exits after speaking during an election night event in Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Murphy is locked in a tight race with Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli in his bid for a second term. Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Getty)
Murphy has been leading in the polls, has a 1-million-voter registration advantage and had more cash in his campaign coffers than Ciattarelli in the final days of the race.
“We’re all sorry that tonight cannot yet be the celebration we wanted it to be,” Murphy said. “But when every vote is counted — and every vote will be counted — we hope to have a celebration.”
Jack Ciattarelli, Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey, speaks during an election night event in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Getty)
Ciattarelli was up by about 1,000 votes with 88% reporting at about 3:30 a.m. ET.
Ciattarelli, a former accountant and businessman, has been involved in New Jersey state politics for decades and served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2011 to 2018. He ran for New Jersey governor in 2017 and came in second place in the primary.
Ciattarelli was recently asked at a campaign event about his feelings about mandates and he said there’d be none under his administration — an allusion to mask and vaccination mandates.
He also implicitly criticized critical race theory in schools, saying that “we are not going to teach our children to feel guilty.” Critical race theory is a method of thinking of America’s history through the lens of racism that has become a political lightning rod of the Republican Party.
The New Jersey race has even more attention after Republican Glenn Youngkin won in Virginia in a match against Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
Two months ago, McAuliffe held a mid-single-digit lead in a state that Biden won by 10 points over then-President Trump just a year ago, but Youngkin erased the former governor’s advantage in the closing stretch of the campaign.
| CANDIDATE | VOTES | PCT. |
|---|---|---|
|
Philip Murphy
|
1,271,272 | 50.75% |
|
Jack Ciattarelli
|
1,214,732 | 48.49% |
|
Madelyn Hoffman
|
7,872 | 0.31% |
|
Gregg Mele
|
7,355 | 0.29% |
|
Joanne Kuniansky
|
3,715 | 0.15% |
97% Expected vote
Expected vote An Associated Press estimate of how much of the vote in an election has been counted. It is informed by turnout in recent elections, details on votes cast in advance and – after polls close – early returns. The estimate may fluctuate as election officials report additional results and AP learns more about how many voters have cast a ballot.
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Murphy held a comfortable lead over Ciattarelli leading up to Election Day, according to the most recent polls collected by RealClearPolitics. Murphy’s smallest advantage was six points in an Emerson poll conducted between Oct. 15-18. Other polling shows Murphy with an even larger advantage.
Murphy can also become the first Democrat to be reelected governor in the Garden State since 1977.
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser, Jon Brown and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
“LET’S GO BRANDON” YEAH, WE ARE TALKING TO YOU BLOKE
They brought in the heavy weights, Obama, Abrams, Biden, the kitchen sink too, they came to Virginia. Not to see the Statue of Robert E. Lee , mind you, but to drag a Clintonian “tax and spend liberal” over the finish line. What happened? The people of Virginia told the WOKE CROWD, NOT HERE BUDDY. MIND YOUR OWN “F’N BUSINESS.”
We see articles that imply the Woke to wake up because of the devastating defeat in VA. Wrong, we don’t want them to wake up, keep them in a trance, sprouting GREEN VOMIT from “da mout.” Let them trample on individual rights for the next three years; you saw the result here, a wake-up call, but we do not want them to wake up from the Woke state.
As they travel from one venue to another, “LET’S GO BRANDON ” will be heard at every rally, every tweet, every tik-tok, every blog, every podcast, every webcast and at every news conference. This is how we want it to be. Ordinary people have finally woken up to the authoritarian vaxers who want to jab you to death. They are only interested in power at our expense.
SO “LET’S GO BRANDON” AT EVERY RALLY, EVERY NEW CONFERENCE AT EVERY SPORTS VENUE.
Ten months into the Biden Era, the American electorate has spoken up, and it sounds a lot like a rowdy, fired-up crowd at a college football game:
“Let’s Go Brandon!!!”
FUCK JOE BIDEN AT METLIFE! 🗣🇺🇸 #FJB @OldRowSports pic.twitter.com/u4HWvoksJl
— Old Row (@OldRowViral) October 4, 2021
The catchphrase of the year — a sanitized way of saying “F–k Joe Biden” that amounts to a dual-warhead cruise missile raining down equal contempt on both our blundering president and the media who shamelessly cover for him — is a three-word encapsulation of everything the voters had to say to Democrats Tuesday, from Puget Sound to Long Island Sound. The word “reeling” appeared in so many press accounts in descriptions of Democrats Wednesday morning that the political news looked like an issue of Field & Stream.
In Virginia, after Joe Biden won the state last November by 10 points, the Republican Party appeared to have as much life in it as your local Sears. Tuesday, Republicans flipped the statewide offices and the House of Delegates from blue to red. Virginia voters were flipping the bird to Terry McAuliffe and his buddy Joe Biden.
In Seattle, where Donald Trump got 8 percent of the vote in 2020, a Republican won as city attorney, the first of his party to win a city office in 30 years.
JACK CIATTARELLI ON THE VERGE TO BE NEXT NJ GOVERNOR IN THE “TAX THE RICH” STATE OF LIBERALISM
Incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy narrowly trailed Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli heading into Wednesday morning with ballots — many of them vote-by-mail — in Democratic-rich areas yet to be counted.
With nearly 89% of precincts reporting early Wednesday morning, Ciattarelli held a tenuous lead in the contest to decide the next governor — 49.9% of the vote compared to Murphy’s 49.4%, according to The Associated Press.
In addition to the uncounted ballots, there were also about 700,000 early and mail-in votes to tally.
| Jack Ciattarelli | Republican | 1,173,558 | 49.65% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Murphy* | Democrat | 1,172,365 | 49.60 | |
| Madelyn Hoffman | Independent | 7,278 | 0.31 | |
| Gregg Mele | Independent | 6,872 | 0.29 | |
| Joanne Kuniansky | Independent | 3,399 | 0.14 | |
| Total reported | 2,363,472 |
WHY AREN’T THE VOTES COUNTED BY NOW?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/vote-new-jersey-next-governor-jack-ciatterelli
What would you say to a governor who told you, “If you don’t like paying high taxes, you should pick up your family and your small business and leave the state?” Well, if you live in New Jersey, that’s exactly what Gov. Phil Murphy suggested you do. He told the highest-taxed people in America to deal with it or get out.
No governor from New Jersey – one who truly understood our residents – would ever say that. Murphy is tone deaf and out of touch. He’s not one of us. He’s not New Jersey. He’s an extreme liberal transplant from Massachusetts.
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR’S RACE: WHAT TO KNOW
My story is a New Jersey story. It’s where my grandparents immigrated from Italy 100 years ago. It’s where I was born and raised. It’s where I went to school. Where I became a CPA. It’s where my wife Melinda and I raised our four children. It’s where I started two successful Main Street businesses and created jobs and opportunities for fellow New Jerseyans (while Murphy was busy making rich people richer on Wall Street). 
1 day ago
Fox News
Jack Ciattarelli: Why I want your vote to become New Jersey’s next governor | Fox News
TAKE THIS BIDEN – TAKE THIS PELOSI – TAKE THIS SQUAD – YOUNGKIN WINS IN LANDSLIDE
GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN – ON THE ROAD TO GLORY – OLD DOMINION RISES AGAIN
Critical Race Theory, Equity v Equality – Jab v Freedom – America v Illegals, that is what this election is all about. 
CONGRATULATIONS TO GLENN FOR A WELL FOUGHT VICTORY – NEVER WAVERING IN ATMOSPHERE OF LIES AND INSULTS
Youngkin defeats McAuliffe in race for Virginia governor
The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Republican Glenn Youngkin will win the gubernatorial race in Virginia, defeating former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe in a statewide election with national implications that McAuliffe was once expected to win.
Youngkin ran a disciplined campaign, focusing on taxes, crime, and holding public schools accountable to parents, while McAuliffe spent much of his fire power the past couple of months linking Youngkin to former President Donald Trump.
McAuliffe also nationalized the race, campaigning with President Biden, Vice President Harris, former President Obama, and other top Democrats in an unsuccessful attempt to boost his fortunes.
“Alrighty Virginia, we won this thing,” Youngkin told supporters in his victory speech a little after 1 AM Wednesday.
And he vowed that “together, we will change the trajectory of this commonwealth.”
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Two months ago, McAuliffe held a mid-single-digit lead in a state that Biden won by 10 points over then-President Trump just a year ago, but Youngkin erased the former governor’s advantage in the closing stretch of the campaign.
We are also watching the gubernatorial results in the blue state of New Jersey. That contest, between Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli, tightened in recent weeks and was too close to project a winner at the time this story was published.
With Virginia’s gubernatorial race considered a key bellwether ahead of next year’s midterm elections, Youngkin’s victory in a state where Republicans hadn’t won statewide in a dozen years will only increase Democratic anxieties as they try to defend their razor-thin House and Senate majorities in 2022.
Youngkin, a first-time candidate and former private equity CEO, won thanks to a wave of Republican voter enthusiasm, and by tapping into the anger of parents over decisions by their local school boards.
NO 1619 HERE
Virginia celebrated its quadricentennial year in 2007, marking 400 years since the establishment of the Jamestown Colony. The observances highlighted contributions from Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans, each of which had a significant part in shaping Virginia’s history.[85][86] Warfare, including among these groups, has also had an important role. Virginia was a focal point in conflicts from the French and Indian War, the American Revolution and the Civil War, to the Cold War and the War on Terrorism.[87] Fictionalized stories about the early colony, in particular the story of Pocahontas and John Smith, first became popular in the period after the Revolutionary War, and together with other myths surrounding George Washington‘s childhood and the plantation elite in the antebellum period, became touchstones of Virginian and American culture and helped shape the state’s historic politics and beliefs.[88][84]
What was the significance of the year 1619 in the Virginia Colony?
Although English colonists in Virginia did not invent slavery, and the transition from a handful of bound African laborers to a legalized system of full-blown chattel slavery took many decades, 1619 marks the beginning of race-based bondage that defined the African American experience.
SEND HERSCHEL WALKER TO THE SENATE – DEFEAT FARRAKHAN BY ELECTING AN AMERICAN PATRIOT
Run. Fight. Win.
This race is too important to sit on the sidelines. Georgians deserve better. America deserves better. I hope you’ll join Team Herschel today by chipping in below:
SEND THE DEEP STATE A MESSAGE TOMORROW – YOUNGKIN FOR VIRGINIA GOVERNOR
We are on the ROAD TO VICTORY. The governorship of Virginia is within our grasp. Glenn Youngkin has waged a brilliant campaign against a Clintonian plant.
A win here will send a message to the Deep State. “WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR LIES, SCANDALS, CRITICAL RACE THEORY, JABS, DEFUND THE POLICE but ERASING OUR HISTORY IS THE WORST OF ALL. 
Youngkin’s opponent walks away when reporters ask tough questions. That is not the governor VIRGINIA WANTS.
CHILDRENS HEALTH DEFENSE WORLDWIDE WALKOUT
OCTOBER 27, 2021
WorldWide Walk Outs!
Photo Credit: Souls of A Movement (IG: soulsofamovement)
Worldwide Walkouts will demand a return to freedom and democratic principles. Citizens around the globe are protesting loss of liberty, illegal mandates and tyrannical government overreach. Every man, woman and child is important to this movement!
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CHD Board Chair and Lead Counsel:
“No government in history has ever surrendered power in the absence of a demand. We need to tell these governments and their friends in the technocracy, the Silicon Valley billionaire boys club, the mainstream media, and the pharmaceutical industry that we will no longer tolerate their trampling of citizens’ rights.”