Judge never reported Chicago woman who voted in N.J. election

Superior Court Judge Kelly A. Conlon changed the outcome of a recent election in Bergen County when she tossed one vote cast by a 30-year-old woman who lives in Chicago but continued to vote in Oakland, but she never reported the infraction to law enforcement or election officials, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed.

After last year’s Oakland Borough Council race and a recount ended in a tie, the voter, Natalie Carti, refused to testify at a trial in January, saying she intended to exercise her Fifth Amendment rights. Conlon initially found Carti’s lease on a Chicago apartment, along with pay stubs and tax forms, to be inadmissible.

But Conlon allowed Carti’s parents to testify as to their daughter’s Chicago residency – and her political leanings – and reduced independent Matthew Dumpert’s vote total by one because that’s how the judge believed she had voted.

“The court finds, by a preponderance of the evidence, that (the) respondent has sustained his burden of proof that her ballot contained a vote for Matthew Dumpert,” Conlon said in January.


https://newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/judge-never-reported-chicago-woman-who-voted-in-n-j-election/