A judge has ruled that a new election will be held in November for a disputed Paterson City Council seat, just weeks after the race’s apparent winner and a sitting councilman were charged with voter fraud, Fox News reported.
State Superior Court Judge Ernest Caposela issued his ruling Wednesday.
Alex Mendez won a special election on May 12 to fill the seat. Claims of voter fraud were soon raised. An investigation was then launched after the U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement arm. They found hundreds of mail-in ballots in a mailbox in Paterson and another in Haledon.
Ultimately, 800 ballots were discounted by the Passaic County Board of Elections, and another 2,300 ballots were rendered ineligible after analyzing signatures on file and comparing them to those on the ballots, according to the Hill. A Passaic County report shows that these 3,100 disqualified ballots are equal to more than 22% of the total votes cast in the election.
Voter fraud charges were brought in June against Mendez, Paterson Council Vice President Michael Jackson and two other men: Shelim Khalique, of Wayne, and Abu Rayzen, of Prospect Park.
An attorney for Councilman William McKoy, who was defeated by Mendez, then successfully sought an injunction that barred Mendez from being sworn into office.
All four defendants have maintained their innocence.
TRUMP WAS RIGHT AGAIN
This is an example of what can happen – easily – with mail-in ballots. It’s not a USPS problem. It’s the process that’s at fault. The USPS does a decent job.
The Trump campaign is suing New Jersey over Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order adopting a hybrid voting model for this November, as reported by CNN on Wednesday.
Murray the vote is one per CITIZEN so anything to could nullify a single vote should no be allowed. Mass mail voting would 100% lead to fraud. nJ just had to redo an election due to fraud. Illegals, voting, liberals voting multiple times, destroying ballots. Get it? https://t.co/SYhaS9up8M
— John Ogden (@johnogden007) August 21, 2020
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Are there 3,100 charges of Mail Fraud, each one a federal felony? “Mail fraud is punishable by a fine and imprisonment of up to 20 years for each count. Dems should rethink this because unlike state charges that are dropped by lawless state AG’s, any ineligible person mailing in a ballot can and should be prosecuted in federal court for mail fraud and in state court for election fraud. That would also be grounds for deportation of DECA illegal aliens.
I have no fear that President Trump will win on November 3rd, Republicans will retake control of the House and keep the Senate IF the Democrats are blocked from skewing it with fraudulent mail in ballots and other well known means they use. If you are too scared to vote in person then stay stay home and don’t go anywhere. That includes the grocery store, Walmart and everywhere else you are close to others. Stay in your basement.
Let me rephrase that: I have no fear President Trump will not win……in a fair election.
See, Trump told us so! And he was right, again.