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“Our votes were not counted. My vote, my wife and our two sons.” Assemblyman Benjie Wimberly lives in Paterson where the May 12th VBM, or vote-by-mail, election is now under investigation by state and federal authorities. He says, 3,200 votes, including his, got rejected by the Board of Elections. “I was furious. One was, I had concerns about the VBM process due to COVID-19. The postal system system really wasn’t working due to the shortage of workers.”
One losing candidate recently filed a lawsuit alleging fraud but as 6.1 million New Jersey residents prepare to cast vote-by-mail ballots in the July 7th primary Wimberly pointed out vote-by-mail challenges can arise in densely-populated cities with mail carriers overwhelmed by thousands of ballots. “Under one case, they went to a development and dropped all the VBMs by the mailbox – so basically they had to sort them out and get them to people.”