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Essex County Senate, Assembly Results

Democratic incumbents sweep in Essex County.

 

Incumbent candidates retained their seats overall in Essex County. The Democratic team, led by former Gov. Richard Codey, retained control of the 27th Legislative District.

Sheila Oliver, the first African-American speaker of the house, who has battled with Gov. Chris Christie over the last year, retained her seat in the Assembly. And Republicans Joe Pennacchio, Alex DeCroce and Jay Webber, kept their seats in the Morris County-dominated 26th District.

In Newark, State Sen. Teresa Ruiz and Sen. Ron Rice retained their seats, along with their Democratic counterparts in the Assembly. Montclair's Nia H. Gill, also a Democrat, also kept her post, as did Assemblyman Ralph Caputo, who represents the 28th District.

Turnout was light in Tuesday' night's election, without a national race. Voters came out to pick state, county and municipal winners.

Winners are denoted in bold.

26th District Senate

Candidate Morris County votes Essex County Passaic County Total
Joe Pennacchio* (R-Pine Brook) 13,319 3,480 3,363 20,162
Wasim Khan (D-Parsippany) 6,234 2,003 2,059 10,296
Joseph Scafa (I-Rockaway) 662 101 147 910

26th District Assembly

Candidate Morris County votes Essex County Passaic County Total
*Alex DeCroce (R-Morris Plains) 12,920 3,404 3,301 19,625
*Jay Webber (R-Morris Plains) 12,866 3,317 3,300 19,483
Elliot Isibor (D-Rockaway) 6,311 1,980 2,005 10,296
Joseph Raich (D-Parsippany) 6,624 2,061 2,139 10,824
Michael Spector (I-Mount Tabor) 739 156 195 1,090

27th District Assembly

Candidate Morris County votes Essex County Total
*Mila Jasey (R-South Orange)
5,637 17,027 22,664
*John McKeon (D-West Orange)
5,955 17,451 23,406
Lee Holtzman (R-Livingston)
9,583
9,217
18,800
Nicole Hagner (R-Chatham) 9,676 9,066 18,742

27th District Senate

Candidate Morris County votes Essex County Total
*Richard Codey (D-Roseland)
7,484
19,499
26,983
William Eames (R-Whippany) 8,853 7,831
16,684

28th District Assembly

Candidate Total
*Cleopatra G. Tucker (D-Newark) 13,609
*Ralph R. Caputo (D-Belleville) 13,593
Carol Humphreys (R-Bloomfield) 4,533
David H. Pinckney (R-Irvington) 4,193

28th District Senate

Candidate Total
*Ronald L. Rice (D-Newark) 14,367
Russell Mollica (R-Bloomfield) 4,443

29th District Assembly

Candidate Total
*L. Grace Spencer (D-Newark) 8,482
*Alberto Coutinho (D-Newark) 8,323
Elaine L. Guarino (R-Newark) 1,722
Lisa T. Kistner (R-Belleville)
1,675

29th District Senate

Candidate Total
*M. Teresa Ruiz (D-Newark) 8,978
Aracelis Sanabria Tejada (R-Newark) 1,585
Laurie J. Taylor (I-Newark)
359

34th District Assembly

Candidate Essex County Passaic County Total
*Sheila Oliver (D-East Orange)
11,321 4,038 15,359
*Thomas Giblin (D-Montclair)
11,713 4,481 16,194
Steve Farrell (R-Clifton)
1,218 3,021 4,239
Joan Salensky (R-Clifton) 1,139 3,081 4,220
Clenard Childress (I-Montclair) 609 194 803
David Taylor (I-Montclair) 402 174 576

34th District Senate

Candidate Essex County Passaic County Total
*Nia Gill (D-Montclair)
12,551 4,454 17,005
Ralph Bartnik (R-Clifton)
1,199 3,149 4,348

40th District Assembly

Candidate Essex County Bergen County** Morris County Passaic County
Total
William J. Brennan (D-Wayne)
700
3,872 1,198 6,801
12,571
Cassandra Lazzara (D-Little Falls)
777
4,265 1,338 7,886 14,266
*David C. Russo (R-Ridgewood)
1,358
7,291 2,004 9,795 20,448
*Scott T. Rumana (R-Wayne)
1,259
7,016 1,957 9,858
20,090

40th District Senate

Candidate Essex County Bergen County** Morris County Passaic County
Total
*Kevin J. O'Toole (R-Cedar Grove)
1,485
7,417 2,084
10,130
21,116
John Zunic (D-Cedar Grove)
742
3,830 1,169
6,844
12,585

* Denotes incumbent

** Bergen County results for District 40 as of 10 p.m. Tuesday, with 42 of 51 polling districts reporting.

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Don

9:40 am on Thursday, November 10, 2011

Andrew Appel, a Princeton computer science professor, purchased a lot of 5 Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machines for $82 or $16.40 each (plus shipping) You can read his experiences with these impressive monuments to government stupidity here:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/avc/
"I purchased one lot of 5 machines, for a price of $82 for the lot. Registering to bid at govdeals.com is just like registering to bid on e-bay--no questions asked except name, address, e-mail, and telephone number. The government had no information about me or my motives in obtaining the voting machines at any time before or after the auction and delivery of the voting machines to me. I paid for the machines by cashier's check. I had these machines shipped to me in Princeton by commercial carrier, where they arrived on February 2, 2007.

On February 3, 2007 I examined the machines. The machines arrived in operating order. The machines, originally sold to Buncombe County in 1997 for $5200 each, appear to be almost identical to machines used in Mercer County, New Jersey, where I vote. The only difference that I discerned is that instead of a green "x" to indicate a vote, there is a green arrow. This difference is very minor and does not, for example, mean that the internal software is different. "

(Source: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/avc/ )

"...I watched a Princeton University student pick the lock of my machine in about 7 seconds..."

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