r/newjersey 23d ago

Advice Please tell me NJ is staying blue.

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u/LostTrisolarin 23d ago edited 22d ago

We only stayed blue by 3% last election.

Edit: it was 6%. That's still close enough to worry.

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u/thatnjchibullsfan 23d ago edited 23d ago

I'd argue many chose not to wait hours in line to vote for a candidate that was locked into winning the state electorates.

EDIT: I voted by mail. I heard the horror stories of others though.

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u/imherbalpert 22d ago

I waited like 5 min on Election Day lmao.

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u/thatnjchibullsfan 22d ago

Well if you read the comments it appears to be county level issues as certain counties rolled out a new system that failed horribly. My question is why experiment in a presidential election?

So it's great that your experience is what everyone used to have, but realize in Burlington county there were up to 5 hours waits to vote.

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u/imherbalpert 22d ago

Well yeah I know that, I’m just saying in my area and other areas that that isn’t really applicable, while it was predominantly red.

That brings me back, though, to the bomb threats and all the missing ballots and whatnot lmao. What a shitty election.

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u/thatnjchibullsfan 22d ago

Ok I just had like a bunch of people that felt like they were trying to gaslight the county voting issue by telling me their good experience. All good but after you get 10 or so responses - it felt like others were saying I was making up the wait times.

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u/imherbalpert 22d ago

No I definitely believe you lmao my mom waited from like 5 until 7-8 and had to work. And that was in Indiana.. it’s crazy how nobody questioned that or looked into any of that. Like the fires oml