No Concession Yet as New Jersey GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Jack Ciattarelli Weighs Possible Recount RequestMichael Patrick Leahy 8 Nov 2021
The campaign of New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli, who has not conceded, announced on Monday that it is still considering the possibility of requesting a recount, even though he trails incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) by 2.6 percent in the latest vote count, with 90 percent of the vote counted six days after the November 3 election.
“Waiting an additional day or two for all votes to be counted should not be controversial,” Ciattarelli legal counsel Mark Sheridan said in a statement released by the campaign on Monday.
“New Jersey does not have an automatic recount provision, but recounts may be requested within 17 days of the election. Any candidate may request a recount and the requester is responsible for the cost of the recount unless the election outcome changes,” Ballotpedia reports.
The Ciattarelli campaign emphasized that it is not alleging any instances of vote fraud.
“Let me be clear, no one on this team is alleging fraud or malfeasance, as we have not seen any credible evidence of that,” Sheridan said in the statement.
“However, the new law Governor Murphy and state Democrats rushed to enact led to this disjointed and excruciatingly slow vote counting process. We still have vote-by-mail ballots outstanding and approximately 70,000 provisional ballots to be counted,” Sheridan added.
“At this time, we do not expect the provisional vote count to end with Jack Ciattarelli in the lead,” he continued.
“However, that count may reduce the margin for Governor Murphy enough to warrant a full recount,” Sheridan added.
The campaign statement released provided these details on the status of the vote count as of 2:00 p.m. ET Monday:
Unofficially, 66,405 votes separate Jack Ciattarelli (1,219,906) and Governor Phil Murphy (1,285,351) – a margin of 2.6% of the vote.
As a result of Governor Murphy’s rush to implement early voting, technology errors resulted in voters being forced to cast approximately 70,000 provisional ballots which have yet to be counted.
An unknown number of vote-by-mail ballots are still being received through today and have yet to be counted.
Based on information and belief, there is an unknown number of emergency ballots that are yet to be reported by County Clerks.
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