{"id":2506616,"date":"2025-11-04T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bomb-threats-and-bad-ballots-mark-election-day-in-new-jersey\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:35:51","slug":"bomb-threats-and-bad-ballots-mark-election-day-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bomb-threats-and-bad-ballots-mark-election-day-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Threats And Bad Ballots Mark Election Day In New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbomb-threats-and-bad-ballots-mark-election-day-in-new-jersey%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2506616&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Election Day in New Jersey, bomb threats and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >legal disputes disrupted teh voting process<\/a> across seven counties, including Passaic, a county known for previous mail-in ballot fraud issues.Law enforcement determined the bomb threats were not credible, but some polling sites were temporarily closed or relocated. The Attorney General and state officials coordinated efforts to ensure election security.<\/p>\n<p>Along with security concerns, a lawsuit emerged regarding mail-in ballots in Bergen County. Democrats sought to allow about 300 voters to &#8220;cure&#8221; ballots returned in unsealed envelopes,a demand opposed by the Republican National Committee,which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-plan-to-keep-rfk-jr-on-wi-ballot-comes-down-to-wire\/\" title=\"Dems&#039; Plan To Keep RFK Jr. On WI Ballot Comes Down To Wire\">cited state law prohibiting<\/a> such corrections. republicans accused Democrats of trying to change election rules last minute to count ineligible votes, highlighting partisan tensions around election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously occurring,in neighboring Pennsylvania,an error in poll books led to 75,000 independent voters in Chester County having to cast provisional ballots,even though supplemental materials were later provided to polling places.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey&#8217;s 2025 gubernatorial election faced challenges with election security and mail-in ballot disputes amid ongoing concerns about election integrity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bomb threats and lawsuits. Never a dull Election Day in New Jersey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The threats were sent to polling locations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/new-jersey-bomb-threats-and-trumps-warnings-for-california-mark-final-day-of-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seven<\/a> New Jersey counties, including Passaic, where the U.S. Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-monitor-polling-sites-california-new-jersey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has sent<\/a> federal election monitors, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/public-radio-reporter-arrested-for-firebombing-police-cars\/\" title=\"Public Radio \u201cReporter\u201d Arrested For Firebombing Police Cars\">law enforcement officials<\/a>. Voting was <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/credible-bomb-threats-temporarily-halt-voting-northern-new\/story?id=127168655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">halted temporarily<\/a> as law enforcement responded, with elections officials switching polling sites to meet what was determined to be noncredible threats.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Law enforcement has determined that there are no credible threats at this time,&rdquo; Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, a Democrat who also serves as New Jersey&rsquo;s top election official, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/bomb-threats-close-n-j-142716635.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>. &ldquo;We are doing everything in our power to protect voters and poll workers and coordinate closely with state, local and federal partners to ensure a smooth and safe election.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The emails were sent to polling sites in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njoag.gov\/statement-of-attorney-general-matthew-j-platkin-regarding-todays-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to Attorney General Matt Platkin.&nbsp; Passaic County, a traditional blue county that President Donald Trump won in 2024, is the home of &ldquo;one of the most notorious mail-in ballot fraud scandals in recent memory,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/11\/03\/new-jerseys-past-election-integrity-problems-demand-federal-oversight-in-governors-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to the Texas Public Policy Foundation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/26\/widespread-fraud-in-new-jersey-special-election-proves-again-that-mail-in-ballots-are-ripe-for-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, a whopping 19 percent of the mail-in ballots in a 2020 special election in Paterson (county seat of Passaic County) were found to be fraudulent. The Board of Elections was forced to disqualify nearly 3,200 votes. The attorney general&rsquo;s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidernj.com\/grewal-announces-voting-fraud-charges-paterson-councilman-michael-jackson-councilman-elect-alex-mendez-two-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charged four men<\/a> with criminal conduct. The case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/paterson-press\/2025\/09\/22\/paterson-nj-councilman-michael-jackson-election-fraud-case-delayed\/86299179007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lingers<\/a> on in court.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The incident was so serious that a judge threw out the entire election and ordered a new one,&rdquo; notes the report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/troubled-history-troubling-choices-passaic-countys-failed-election-safeguards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Troubled History, Troubling Choices: Passaic County&rsquo;s Failed Election Safeguards<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>No &lsquo;Cure&rsquo;?<\/h2>\n<p>Mail-in ballots continue to be an issue in New Jersey&rsquo;s 2025 gubernatorial election. On Tuesday, the Republican National Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/click.campaigns.rnchq.com\/?qs=a8e5f204da8d60374c59484d7e17b36a91cf068718b0bb9df25dee01e05054c608dd17bf2ef4ba2593049e192272bfb4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">intervened<\/a> in a lawsuit filed by Democrats demanding that the Bergen County Board of Elections disregard state election law and allow some 300 voters to &ldquo;cure&rdquo; &mdash; or correct &mdash; their mail-in ballots that were returned with unsealed envelopes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As attorneys for the New Jersey Republican Party <a href=\"https:\/\/prod-static.gop.com\/media\/documents\/Filed_Motion_to_Intervene_Bergen_County_1762270283.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argue<\/a>, the relief requested by the New Jersey Democratic State Committee doesn&rsquo;t stand under a previous appellate court holding that state election law &ldquo;does not permit voters to cure mail in ballots that are missing the information required on the inner envelope.&rdquo; Plain and simple.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats are once again trying to change election rules at the last minute to count ineligible ballots,&rdquo; Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters said Tuesday afternoon in a press release.&nbsp; &ldquo;New Jersey law is clear &mdash; unsealed or tampered ballots can&rsquo;t be counted. That&rsquo;s why the RNC is supporting the NJGOP&rsquo;s efforts to make sure only lawful votes are counted.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hudsoncountyview.com\/hoboken-gop-elects-new-executive-board-including-naming-sokolov-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pavel Sokolov<\/a>, Hudson County GOP State Committeeman, told The Federalist that the Democrats&rsquo; lawsuit could signal some desperation for the party that has long dominated New Jersey politics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If the Democrats are suing their own county &mdash; because Bergen County is a Democrat county &mdash; they must not be particularly confident in the state results,&rdquo; the Republican Party official said in a phone interview.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said in-person voting on Election Day is &ldquo;leaning toward Republicans,&rdquo; as it often does. What remains to be seen is the vote total coming from the polls after the workday ends, Sokolov added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other than some issues with some complaints about electioneering near polls, Sokolov said New Jersey polling sites in Hudson County and elsewhere in northern New Jersey seemed to be operating smoothly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Off the Books&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Neighbor state Pennsylvania was dealing with a significant polling book &ldquo;error&rdquo; on Election Day. As The Federalist&rsquo;s Beth Brelje <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/11\/04\/chester-county-pa-poll-books-missing-names-of-75000-voters-in-election-day-error\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported, <\/a>approximately 75,000 independent and unaffiliated voters in Chester County will be forced to cast provisional ballots after their names were left off the county&rsquo;s poll books.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are working to get supplemental poll books to every polling place. Until that time, any registered voter who is not listed in the pollbook can vote provisionally,&rdquo; Chester County Voter Services posted Tuesday on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesco.org\/156\/Voter-Services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>. Later in the afternoon, the county updated the message to indicate the supplemental poll books &ldquo;had been deployed to Chester County&rsquo;s 230 polling locations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bomb threats and lawsuits disrupt NJ Election Day voting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2506617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-04-at-2.48.25-PM-1024x569.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[38736,33731,33096,40938],"class_list":["post-2506616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bomb-threats","tag-election-day","tag-new-jersey","tag-voting-issues"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-04-at-2.48.25-PM-1024x569.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506621,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506616\/revisions\/2506621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}