Roughly 1,400 residents cast their vote at the Lakewood Municipal Building today – a stunningly high number that is sending shockwaves throughout the state’s political infrastructure, Lakewood Alerts reports.
Incredibly, 23% of the voters who have cast early ballots in Lakewood were low-propensity voters, meaning they had either never voted before, or had last voted a long time ago.
Sunday’s massive turnout – which comes on top of several thousands in-person early votes that had early been cast since early voting began this past Sunday – comes following the unanimous call of the gedolim, rabbanim, and roshei yeshiva of Lakewood for residents to vote for Avi Schnall for Assembly.
Lines at the municipal building on Sunday afternoon snaked into and past the parking lot, with voters waiting patiently for their turn to heed the call of the gedolim. The turnout was so massive that the Ocean County Board of Elections sent additional voting machines to Lakewood to accommodate the crowds.
The turnout has turned heads in Ocean County and beyond, with Asbury Park Press reporter Erik Larsen stating that officials now consider the race between Avi Schnall and Ned Thomson to be a dead-heat, with the momentum heavily in favor of Schnall.
“We are extremely humbled that so many voters are coming out to support Avi as per the call of the gedolim,” the Schnall campaign said.
“However,” it stressed, “we must keep the momentum going. With early voting now over, we will need a very strong turnout on Tuesday, Election Day, to ensure that Avi is victorious in bringing the voice of the kehilla to Trenton.”
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I hope all those people were voting AGAINST Schnall and for the Republicans. Someone who votes for a Democrat is an accomplice in all the evil that the Democrat Party does.
Avi is a great person. I fear though that early voting turnout shouldn’t work against his campaign. If this news gets his opponent’s voting block out, this early voting could hurt him. Further, if our people see that so many people voted already, this may work to keep people at home come election day. Hopefully not!
Just keep investing in your strange land. U love it so much…
There was a robocall from a Thomson related PAC yesterday that had spoofed their caller ID to say Avi Schnall.
I consider that to be a low tactic.
I’m not getting involved in who you should vote for, I’m just pointing out that Thomson has so far used anti semitic dog whistles in his campaign and now this underhanded tactic.
A low move is knocking out a loyal assemblyman for many years to the community.
A low move is when a few people push there personnel interests despite endangering a whole community.
Not sure how became so comfortable in golus that we are ready to be misgareh biumos so much.
I was always under the impression we keep a low profile in golus waiting for moshiuach.
LIAG, this is America. Eretz Yisroel is our home, but while we are in golus this is our home away from home. We are not guests here in America, but full citizens and partners. It belongs to us just as much as it belongs to any of its other citizens, and there is nothing wrong with one of us running for office. If Schnall were running as a Republican I’d be all for it. Even if he ran as a Democrat in a seat that no Republican could ever win, I could avert my eyes and forgive that as a practical necessity. But to try to take a Republican seat and swing it to the Democrats is a low move indeed. Anti-American, and anti-Jewish. The Democrats are our enemy.
Calling a “unanimous call of the gedolim, rabbanim, and roshei yeshiva of Lakewood” anti-Jewish and an accomplice to evil takes a lot of chutzpah