Early Voting is a Colossal Failure in Atlantic County, NJ

The voting experiment in New Jersey continues.

In 2023, there were 9 days of early voting (October 28-November 5, 2023) was conducted and it was a colossal failure.

Last year’s early voting in New Jersey ended at 6:00 p.m. on November 5, 2023.

Here is a review of the numbers:

There are approximately 200,000 registered voters in Atlantic County, New Jersey.

Only 4,676 voters utilized the early voting that was provided at the 7 designated polling sites throughout Atlantic County.

Here is the pathetic breakdown as follows:

Besides being able to say that New Jersey wants to give every voter as many opportunities to vote as possible … there is no legitimate reason to keep this anemic practice alive

A whopping 2 percent of the Atlantic County voters utilized this method of voting.

We are in the process of getting  (from Joe Giralo, Atlantic County Clerk) the financial data with regards to the overall cost involved.

There is another reason to end this practice. Potentially disqualifying and other pertinent facts about the candidates can occur present in the last 9 days of an election.

For those who have already voted … you can’t ask for your vote back.

New Jersey has 9 days of this early voting madness. Some states have 45 days and more of early voting.

So, in New Jersey and in America, we no longer have Election Day. We have Election Season.

Remember when we used to have Presidential elections in one day and we knew who won that same day?

This has now been twisted into something that is becoming unrecognizable.

A friend sent me a text about 2 weeks ago. He wrote me the following:

India has 800 million registered voters with ID and all vote on 1 day … and, they know the winner on same day … And, we cannot do that in USA?

It’s a very fair point. We have about 360 million people in America. About 1/2 are registered voters.

Yet, our election process has devolved into an absolute hot mess.

In the June, 2024, only 2,000 people cast ballots in 5 days of early voting.

Elections never end. We just have finality for the citizens to have confidence in our election results.

We need to go “back to the future.” We need to have one Election Day.

If for some reason you can’t vote at the polls; sick, away, adult children in college … Absentee Ballots should be made available that are strictly managed.

The early voting process is being disguised as access for all to be able to vote.

However, something much more insidious appears to be going on here.