What is an election these days without allegations of cheating?
A New Jersey hospital is denying claims that ACORN workers were collecting absentee ballots inside the facility for today's gubernatorial election.
East Orange General Hospital CEO Kevin Slavin said in written statement that "all proper protocols" were followed in the hospital's program to allow patients to vote via absentee ballot. Slavin said that no third-party groups were signing up patients.
"Other than the specifically designated and trained staff to hand out and collect these ballots, no advocacy groups were authorized nor allowed access to the hospital to hand out absentee ballots to patients as has been recently reported in unsubstantiated blogs and on political talk shows," he said in a written statement.
There were reports by the Wall Street Journal and BigGovernment.com claiming that people wearing ACORN shirts were distributing and then collecting absentee ballots at a hospital.
New Jersey law does allow third parties to collect a limited amount of absentee ballots.
This comes after other media outlets have reported that the New Jersey Democratic State Committee admitted to paying for a robo-call promoting independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett.
If the robo-calls were not conducted in coordination with Daggett, they could be illegal.
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