Do our troops get to vote?
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MOONACHIE, N.J. – New Jersey will deploy military trucks to serve as polling places on Election Day in storm-battered communities, the state secretary of the state announced Thursday during a visit to this flood-ravaged town. The state is also extending the deadline on mail-in ballots.
Department of Defense trucks will be parked at regular polling places that have lost power, as long as the sites are still accessible. Paper ballots will be used.
Republican Secretary of State and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno said voters will find "a DOD truck with a well-situated National Guardsman and a big sign saying, "Vote Here."
Guadagno said it was still unclear how many of the state's 3,000 polling places are without power, but she would know by Friday. Alternate sites are to be identified in cases where polling places are gone, she said.
More than 1.6 million electric customers in New Jersey remained without power Thursday night.
The state also extended the deadline for when county clerks may accept mail-in ballot applications to the close of business Friday. Election officials said they could be handed in as late as Election Day, by the close of the polls.
The secretary of state urged as many people as possible in storm-damaged areas to vote by mail-in ballot because, she said, "obviously in places like Seaside Heights and Sea Bright, there is no polling place, it's gone."
"There's no reason not to vote, there's no reason not to vote today, there's certainly no reason not to vote on Tuesday, five days from today," Guadagno said.
Gov. Chris Christie said that in areas without electricity, voting would again be "old school."
"You walk up, get a paper ballot, fill it out and hand it back in," he said.
With paper ballots to be counted, the governor said some races might be more suspenseful.
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My Sister that lives in Alabama sent me this story this morning. WOW! And I heard it on Glenn Beck this am as well. Are you kidding me? No Union Card you can't work here to help get the power on? WTF are they doing up there? WHAT? Gov Christie needs to be called and asked what is his state doing? I can't believe he knows about this I really can't and I'm sure the people of New Jersey would be outraged at this one. I'm glad they are going to have these trucks out so people can get out and vote and maybe just MAYBE we can get rid of the trash in DC but this Union crap in NJ needs to go as well WOW! Go to http://www.waff.com/story/19981857/some-nonunion-ala-crews-turned-a... and see the full story on this. I'm just in shock that someone would tell help to go away if they don't have a Union Card WOW!
Utility crews from several states East of the Mississippi River hit the road this week to volunteer their time and talents in Northeastern states hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. But crews from Alabama got the shock of their lives when other workers in a coastal New Jersey town told them they couldn’t lend a hand without a union card.
Derrick Moore, who works for Decatur Utilities in Decatur, Ala., told WAFF-TV in Huntsville that crews in Seaside Heights, N.J. turned him and his crewmates away, saying they couldn’t do any work there because they’re not union employees.
As a result, crews from Decatur and Huntsville left the Jersey shore and headed to Long Island to pitch in.
WAFF’s Mark Thornton reported that Moore and his coworkers “are frustrated being told, in essence, ‘thanks, but no thanks.’”
Another nonunion Decatur Utilities crew is idling in Roanoke, Va., waiting for instructions from Seaside Heights. The town asked them days ago for help, but later told the workers to stand down.
A rejected crew from the Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Co-op in Trinity, Ala. has already turned around and headed back to Dixie.
Electric repair work for public utilities in New Jersey is dominated by the International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, a unit of the politically powerful AFL-CIO.
Many parts of coastal New Jersey are projected to be without electric power for at least seven to 10 more days.
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I personally wish that we had the old fashioned paper ballots in every district. I do NOT trust the computer voting machines. There are too many certified problems whereby the machines are defaulting to Obama and people are having difficulty getting their vote for Romney to register on the machines. The debacle in Nevada in 2010 is also proof that voter fraud is so much easier when you have SEIU (a very far left leaning organization) controlling the voting machines, then you have an outcome like Harry Reid being re-elected - there is little doubt that he stole that election. Once you vote with the machines, it seems there is little accountability to be had. With paper ballots, there is at least a fighting chance that you can verify the count.
Hopefully the trucks won't be staffed with U.N. troops! Ronald, The unions own Obozo!
This is the New America under Obama and his Socialist/communist labor unions. Volunteers from other states looking to help AMERICAN CITIZENS as well as others but being forbidden to because they are not union members? If you vote for the Commissar in Chief as presently ensconced, there will be little or no choice and few liberties left to ANY of us and we will be at least another 4 trillion doallars in debt, probably TWICE that as Obama submits us to the will of China, Russia and barters our sovereignty and thus, our freedom to the scurrillous UN. IS THIS WHAT WE WISH FOR OUR CHILDREN? The time for talk is over, the election is near, VOTE these people out NOW or be prepared to exercise options no sane American citizen would ever have contemplated as recently as ten years ago! We should NOT allow ballots in ANY language but English, demand proof of citizenship at every polling place in the country, monitor the counting of votes in every American precinct, no votes should be counted by SCYTL in Spain and the UN has no business interfering in our electoral process. Vote for Romney-Ryan, a vote for sanity and a return to CONSTITUTIONALLY COMPLIANT rule in ther United States!
Where the heck is Congress while U.N. persons are observing voting and Spain is counting our votes?
Every single person in Congress should be fired except Issa, Ryan, and a few others.
"With paper ballots to be counted, the governor said some races might be more suspenseful." They might also be more honest!