| Written and distributed since 2003 by Donald Katz, Esq., Republican State Committeeman for Middlesex County and Counsel, Middlesex County Republican Organization VOTE BY MAIL BALLOTS GOING OUT. FOLLOW UP WITH ANY REPUBLICANS WHO ARE GETTING THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY VOTE THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE Depending on when you are reading this, the vote by mail ballots are are going out or have recently been received. Pursuant to law, the ballots started being mailed Saturday, September 20th. Typically, the ballots to all of the people on the permanent vote by mail list and those people who have already requested a by mail ballot for just this election, go out over the first week from the required start date. Therefore, you need to contact all Republicans in your district or you otherwise know will be receiving the ballot, to urge them to immediately complete it and send it back. The best and safest way to get these ballots back to the Board of Elections is to drop them off in a drop box. There is at least one drop box in each of our municipalities which is usually near the municipal building or municipal complex. None of the drop boxes have been moved from their prior locations, (except for the one near the Edison municipal complex which has been moved closer to the street), so if you used one last year, it is still in the same place. The turnout for the last several elections, where the top of the ticket was the governor, has been around 40%, so we can’t afford to leave any Republican votes on the table, especially since the people who receive vote by mail ballots in Middlesex County have been casting their ballots at almost twice the frequency as the registered voters who don’t receive vote by mail ballots. DON’T MISS THE IMPORTANT ELECTION DEADLINES REFERENCED IN MY CALENDAR, BELOW The last day to register to vote is Tuesday, October 14th and if you are the person responsible for filing for credentials for election day challengers in your municipality, that deadline date is Tuesday, October 14th – a week earlier than it used to be, based on a law change. Finally, the last day to apply, by mail, for a vote-by-mail ballot is Tuesday, October 28th (After that date, you can still get a vote by mail ballot in person at the county clerk’s office, up to 3:00 pm the day before to Election Day.) POLITICAL TRIVIA: Here are some political trivia questions. I hope you enjoy them. The answers are below, immediately above the calendar: 1. Grover Cleveland is the first U.S. President to serve two non-consecutive terms. True or False? 2, Which President founded the Environmental Protection Agency? 3. Which animal did Barack Obama name the first national mammal of the U.S.? 4. What was the Secret Service’s original mission when Lincoln created it? 5, Who was the first U.S. President to pay off the national debt entirely? 6. How were Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams related? 7. George Washington fathered no children. True or False? LOOKING FOR ATTORNEYS TO VOLUNTEER ON ELECTION DAY We would like to place attorneys at various critical locations on Election Day, so that there will be someone available at the other end of the phone line at all times to answer your Election Day questions, at the court house to represent the Republican party in Election Day matters, monitor polling locations in potentially problem areas, etc. Although election law experience is a plus, it is not necessary – we will train them, either by their attendance at a challenger training session which will be held prior to the November election, or otherwise. If you know any attorneys who would be willing to volunteer, please have them personally contact the lead attorney, William “Will” Waldron, via e-mail at wewaldron5@gmail.com. Will will be running the attorney operation this election, while I am handling my duties at the Board of Elections. (Of course, prior to Election Day, you can always contact me directly if you have an election law question.) Anyone who offers to be a volunteer attorney on Election Day should be sure to include both his or her e-mail address and his or her cell phone number and he or she should also let us know his or her time availability on Election Day. (Although all day availability would be preferable, if the attorney can volunteer a block of time of 4 hours or more, it would be acceptable.) AS I HAVE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, THE NEW NUMINAR APP COULD BE THE KEY TO ELECTING JACK CIATARELLI AND OTHER REPUBLICANS UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT THIS YEAR Many Middlesex County Republicans have already downloaded and are using the Numinar app, which has been used by the Ciatarelli campaign as a crucial campaign tool since the primary. As I have previously mentioned, it is now available to all Republicans who want to help elect a Republican governor in New Jersey and other Republicans up and down the ballot this year. The Numinar app is available for both iPhones and Android Phones. You should download it on to your phone and set up an account using a password of your choice. Before you can use the app, your e-mail address and contact info will need to be sent to the NJGOP through your GOP organization or campaign who can arrange training for your group and/or by contacting Connor Butz, the NJGOP Field Director covering Middlesex and Mercer Counties, at cb@njgop.org. Once you are registered and trained on the app, you will be able to use the app to make phone calls and for house-to-house campaigning, with data loaded for your jurisdiction. The app also has the capacity to show you targeted voters at the location where you are at the time. The targeted voters include Republicans who are occasional voters and other voters which various research and modeling reflects as being supportive or persuadable. Set forth below are iPhone and Android mobile Numinar apps download links, as well as YouTube videos on how to use the app to phone bank and how to use it to canvass house to house: Links To Download Mobile Numinar App: iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/numinar/id1478776646 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.numinar.numinar&hl=en_US Video on How To Create an Account Using Numinar: https://www.loom.com/share/22c1e0d0ad8b43cd8c1c0bbffd05f876?sid=d4235540-feaf-48b7-b205-75ff65133298 Video on How To Phone Bank using Numinar: https://www.loom.com/share/add28a69940248d8af8a1b961c94858b?sid=af4df709-b376-40f1-ba8c-904dd13cd5ab Video on How to Canvass using Numinar: https://help.numinar.com/en/articles/8137027-video-canvassing-with-the-numinar-mobile-app ONCE AGAIN, THE COUNTY DEMOCRATS PROVE THAT “THEY WILL SPARE NO (TAXPAYERS’) EXPENSE” IF THEY FEEL IT WILL GIVE THEM A POLITICAL ADVANTAGE If you are a registered voter in Middlesex County and are not already on the permanent vote by mail ballot list, you probably have recently received a letter and a vote by mail ballot application over the signature of the Democrat Middlesex County Clerk, so I would estimate that more than 400,000 letters were sent out, all at the county taxpayers’ expense, which I estimate cost the Middlesex County taxpayers in excess of $200,000.00. Why did county Democrats do this? More of the registered voters in our county are Democrats rather than Republicans, so it is likely that more of the people who respond to this mailing and sign up to vote by mail will be Dems rather than Republicans. Even though, on the average, Republicans tend to vote at a higher rate than Democrats, since it is easier to vote by mail, the percentage of people who vote their vote by mail ballot is generally much higher than the percentage of people who vote in person, which helps the Democrats. We can’t let this continue. We need to get our Republicans who only vote occasionally, perhaps only in a Presidential election every 4 years, to sign up to vote by mail, so they will vote, (and probably vote Republican), more often, or get them to vote in person, either during the early voting period (dates in the calendar below) or on Election Day. ANSWERS TO POLITICAL TRIVIA: 1. True. Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. 2. President Richard Nixon founded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an effort to preserve America’s treasured landscapes. Nixon proposed the creation of the EPA in 1970 with the mission of protecting and preserving the environment. 3. The Bison. In 2016, President Barack Obama enacted the National Bison Legacy Act, which made the North American bison the official mammal of the United States. 4. Tracking down counterfeiters. The U.S. Secret Service was launched in 1865 to tackle a specific, severe problem: counterfeit U.S. currency. It’s been estimated that during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, more than a third of all U.S. currency in circulation was counterfeit, likely due to the chaos inflicted by the Civil War. Lincoln authorized the agency the day he died (April 15, 1865), and with the operatives’ early success, their roles began to expand. But it wasn’t until the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 that the Secret Service was asked by Congress to provide presidential protection. 5. Andrew Jackson. On January 8, 1835, President Andrew Jackson achieved his goal of entirely paying off the United States’ national debt. The elimination of the national debt was both a personal issue for Jackson and the culmination of a political project as old as the nation itself. 6. Father and Son. 7. True. In addition to Washington, 4 other Presidents fathered no children: James Polk, Warren Harding, James Buchanan, and Andrew Jackson. UPDATED CALENDAR What follows is an updated calendar. If you have any municipal or countywide fundraisers or functions you would like me to include in my e-mail calendar from time to time, please contact me at dkatzlaw@aol.com. Please note that organizations and campaigns sometimes provide added information, change dates, or cancel events, which I include in this calendar if I receive the information in time. Therefore, if you plan to attend an event, please make sure you review the calendar listing in my latest e-mail and, to the extent you may not have pre-registered for the particular event so the sponsoring group will be able to contact you about any changes, you may want to check with the sponsoring group before you go to make sure the information has not changed. Also, please be aware that these e-mails are not official MCRO notices or mailings; they are just something I do, voluntarily, to help our Republican Party. September 25 (Thursday 6:00 pm) – Poll Worker Information Session put on by the RNC/NJGOP. GOP HQ, 530 Amboy Avenue, Woodbridge. Food/light refreshments will be provided. Anyone interested in attending should RSVP to: https://forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=gSwISgqVDUGWGEYqnHTWrniQVJm8ZqlGjOv-0JfkPvNUOE9LS0tZN005WUlWRzMwUVkwUEtDSUlTMi4u Note: this is not an official poll clerk training session. September 27 (Saturday 1:00 pm – 9:00 pm) – Edison Fall Festival. Amboy Avenue, Edison (in the Clara Baron section of town). The Edison Republican Committee will have a booth and all candidates are welcome to campaign from the booth and other Republicans are invited to stop by. September 30 (Tuesday 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm) – Monroe GOP Meet the Candidates Fundraiser, Red Agave Restaurant & Tequilla Bar, 211 Applegarth Road, Monroe Twp. $35.00 per person. Checks payable to MTRO should be mailed to 404 Spotswood Gravel Hill Road, Monroe Township, NJ 08831. For any questions, call 732-439-9134. September 30 (Tuesday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm) – Shannon Spillane for Jamesburg Mayor Reception, Thumkaa Bar & Kitchen, 34 W Railroad Avenue, Jamesburg. $100 per person. Checks payable and sent to: Shannon for Jamesburg Mayor, 29A Lincoln Avenue, Jamesburg, NJ 08831. September 30 (Tuesday 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm) – Middlesex Borough GOP Cigars & Cosmos Night Fundraiser. Ellery’s Restaurant & Pub, 701 Lincoln Boulevard, Middlesex. $50 per person or $200 for a table of 4. Price includes 3 premium cigars, pizza, beer and wine. Contact Hardik Shah at 201-936-2225 or hshahculture@gmial.com for questions or reservations or make checks (maximum of $200 per check) payable to Jennifer Clock for Council/Shannon Quinn for Council and mail to: BMRO, PO Box 324, Middlesex, NJ 08846. October 4 (Saturday Noon – 5:00 pm) – Jamesburg Fall Festival. West Railroad Avenue, Jamesburg The Jamesburg GOP will be hosting the Middlesex County Republican Women’s Club and the MCRO in a large booth and all candidates are welcome to campaign from the booth and other Republicans are invited to stop by. October 5 (Sunday 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm) – Milltown GOP Cocktail Reception. Milltown American Legion, 4 JF Kennedy Drive, Milltown. $50.00 per person. Checks payable to “Collins & Miller 2025” should be mailed to George Murray, 4 Brook Drive, Milltown, NJ 08850. October 5 (Sunday 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm) – GOP Rally hosted by the Piscataway GOP. Johnson Park, Piscataway. October 8 (Wednesday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm) – South Plainfield GOP Candidates’ Reception, The Spain Inn, 1707 West 7th St., Piscataway. $100 per person, committee members or elected officials $50. Checks payable to: McConville & Smith for Council should be mailed to Scott Miller, Treasurer, 19 Babes Drive, South Plainfield, NJ 07080. For further information contact April Bengivenga at aprilnbob@aol.com or 908-251-4066. October 9 (Thursday 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm) – Monroe Township GOP Candidate Fundraiser. Ciro’s Italian Restaurant, 301 Buckelew Avenue, Monroe Township. $100.00 per person, table of 10 $800.00. Checks payable to MTRO should be mailed to 404 Spotswood Gravel Hill Road, Monroe Township, NJ 08831. For any questions, call 732-439-9134. (Note: This is a change of date) October 9 (Thursday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm) – Old Bridge GOP Road to Victory Reception. Palms Plaza, 343 Route 34, Matawan. $300.00 per person. For additional information or to RSVP, contact Old Bridge GOP Chair Dr. Anita Greenberg-Belli, 447 Ticetown Road, Old Bridge, NJ 08857. 732-754-0051. October 14 (Tuesday) – Last day to register to vote in the General Election. October 14 (Tuesday) – Deadline for filing your list of Election Day challengers for the General Election with the Board of Elections. (Middlesex County Board of Elections, 26-B Kennedy Boulevard, East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816) (Note, this date is one week earlier than it used to be, since a recently adopted law moved the challenger filing deadline earlier by one week.) October 14 (Tuesday 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm) – Middlesex County Republican Women’s Club Meeting, East Brunswick Library, 2 Civic Center Drive, (off Ryder’s Lane), East Brunswick. October 22 (Wednesday 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm) – Monroe GOP Council Candidates Meet & Greet. Baker’s American Bar & Grill, 801 NJ-33, Monroe. $25.00 per person. Any questions, call 732-439-9134. Checks payable to MTRO should be mailed to 404 Spotswood Gravel Hill Road, Monroe Township, NJ 08831. For any questions, call 732-439-9134. October 25 (Saturday) – November 2 (Sunday) – Early Voting Period (Any voter registered in Middlesex County can vote at any of the 10 Early Voting Sites in Middlesex County.) October 28 (Tuesday) – Last day for vote-by-mail ballot applications to be received by the County Clerk by mail in order to vote in the General Election. (Middlesex County Clerk, P.O. Box 1110, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1110). November 3 (Monday 3:00 pm) – Last day to apply for a mail-in ballot in person (or by authorized messenger) at the County Clerk’s office (26-B Kennedy Boulevard, East Brunswick, New Jersey), in order to vote in the General Election. November 4 (Tuesday 6:00 am – 8:00 pm) – General Election December 6 (Saturday, Departing North Brunswick by bus at 7:30 am) – Middlesex County Republican Women’s Club Holiday Bus Trip to Trump Tower in NYC. $80.00 early bird price (which ends 10/1/25) includes Bus, Breakfast at the Trump Grill, Taxes and Gratuities. Send checks payable to “MCRWC” and attendee information to P.O. Box 5274, Old Bridge, NJ 08857. 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MIDDLESEX COUNTY GOP UPDATE
