When asked about President Donald Trump’s unproven claim that widespread voter fraud cost him the popular vote, Gov. Chris Christie relied on an old joke repeated countless times by former Gov. Brendan Bryne, 92, as proof that voter fraud exists.
Bryne has gotten laughs for years at dinners by with the old chestnut that “I want to be buried in Hudson County so that I can remain active in politics.”
But when Christie offered it up during monthly radio call-in show last week, Byrne’s wife Ruthi Zinn Bryne scoffed at the connection to Trump’s claims.
“My take on it would be that that certainly was true in the past,” Ruthi Byrne said. “However, İllegal Bahis that has not been true probably for decades, and Brendan continued to say it because it was funny.”
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But if Trump’s call for an investigation into widespread voter fraud needs a classic Jersey example, The Auditor‘s got one for him — albeit from the 19th century, when it seemed Hudson County graveyards were indeed populated with active voters.
In 1889, Gov. Leon Abbett, a Jersey City Democrat, ran for re-election.
He got incredible support from his home county. Incredible, historians say, because Abbett received more votes from Hudson County than there were voters registered there.
Unlike, Byrne, however, Abbett clearly had no interest in pursuing Jersey politics from the great beyond. When he died in 1894, Abbett was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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