November 02, 2008

Just because Sunday morning is over, doesn't mean Topic A has to end! Get it off your chest! You'll feel a lot better!


Be sure to change your clocks back 1 hour.




Election Voting begins at 6:00 am Tuesday November 4th, untill 8:00pm


Thanks to Dan Alexander:
The vote counting across New Jersey
will actually begin not long after polls open at 6 a.m. Tuesday.
That's when county election boards are allowed to start opening
and tallying absentee ballots -- the first step in a vote-counting
process that may not be complete for days.
A record 5.4 million voters are registered in New Jersey. The
state Attorney General's Office says it will dispatch 540 lawyers
to polling places and county election offices across the state to
try to help the election run smoothly.
Here's a rundown of how the vote is to be counted for Tuesday's
election:
--Workers can start hand-counting the absentee ballots once the
polls open at 6 a.m. But the results are not to be reported until
after the polls are closed at 8 p.m.
--After voting ends at 8 p.m., poll workers take tapes with
results from the back of each machine.
--Different counties handle the next step in slightly different
ways. In all of them, machines read the result tapes. In some, the
machines that read the results are taken to the polling places. In
others, the results are taken to counting machines, in county
election offices or elsewhere.
--County election boards then give the data to county clerks, who
report the results, including tabulations of paper absentee ballots
and emergency ballots, which are used in case of voting machine
problems.
--The part of the count that's potentially most time-consuming is
provisional ballots, which are used by voters who are not listed in
the official registration books. Before those votes are counted,
officials must confirm that the voters are properly registered.
--Counties have until Nov. 10 to report to the state Division of
Elections -- though they can get extensions, if they need more time
to count provisional ballots.
--The state requires that all properly cast paper ballots --
emergency, absentee and provisional -- be counted.
--The Board of State Canvassers meets Dec. 2 to certify state
results.
--The state's presidential election officially wraps up on Dec.
15 with a meeting of the Electoral College. Those it's candidates
who appear on the ballot, the public actually is choosing 15
electors -- and directing them on how to vote. There are a total of
538 voters in the electoral college; it takes 270 of their votes to
win the presidency.




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