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(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 12, 2006 The Old New Jersey Way of Counting Ballots
Yes, there was plenty of corruption -- Jersey City's Mayor Frank "I Am the Law" Hague habitually had ballot boxes tossed in the Hudson River.
But there is nothing fail-safe in this world and while a town's or legislative district's election could be (and was stolen), it was nigh unto impossible to steal the whole state.