Another election, another boatload of evidence-free Republican claims of voter fraud…
In part because it’s the closest of the major races, the New Jersey governor’s race has been the focus of the GOP’s dire warnings. Here’s how the campaign to stoke fears over voter fraud in the Garden State has ramped up in recent days:⢠First, Jim Geraghty of National Review sounded the alarm last Thursday: State Democrats, he fretted, had asked that absentee voters whose signatures on their ballot request form didn’t match that on their registration form — 2300 people in all — be given provisional ballots, rather than have their votes thrown out if they couldn’t be contacted by local election officials [see Late Update below]. Geraghty warned: “Suspicious minds see the [Democrats’ request] as an attempt to create a pool of emergency votes to be used if Christie holds a small lead on Election Night.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=135614