Tuesday November 5th News updates

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- Election day polls open from 6:00am - 8:00 pm if you get inside before 8 you can still vote search for voting district Here 

 for Lakewood you must vote at your district

- As of 7:25pm ET, Donald Trump has a 61% chance of winning the presidency.

- Trump and Harris win the expected states ao far where polls closed.

- Exit polls, Trump at 25% with black men in Georgia

- Milwaukee to recount 30,000 absentee ballots after 'issue involving the ballot stickers and the glass doors on some of the machines'.

- Early CNN exit polls show 72% of voters are dissatisfied or angry about the country’s direction, with Biden’s approval at 41%. Chris Wallace remarked it would take a “miracle” for Kamala to win.

- Trump: Republicans: We are doing GREAT! Stay on Line. Do not let them move you. STAY ON LINE AND VOTE!

- Trump: A lot of talk about massive  cheating in Philadelphia, law enforcement or coming

- Elise Stefanik : -As of 12 pm today, NY Republicans are FLOODING the polls across New York, overperforming our numbers. 

- Turnout in rural parts of NY is skyrocketing.

We MUST keep it up and every Republican needs to get out and VOTE TODAY!

- Harris Campaign advisor: "We are optimistic that we are literally about to turn the page on Donald Trump and install Vice President Harris as the next President of the United States."

- Barack Obama: It took several days to count every ballot in 2020, and it’s very likely we won’t know the outcome tonight either.

 Let the process run its course. It takes time to count every ballot.

- Donald Trump's chances of winning are now 61.5% in betting markets which is not scientific but manipulated by money

- Parents in schools getting phone calls and text messages from igud hamosdos about voting

- Very high turnout for Trump in Monsey/NSquare/Monroe areas

- Mark Halperin: As of now, this is the most important tweet of the day.   Don’t go overboard but…..

'Patrick Ruffini: I have yet to see a piece of unambiguously good news for the Democrats in early voting data or any places reporting live turnout on Election Day but I don’t want to have blinders on."

- Ben Shapiro pay no attention to any exit polling. Pay no attention to any early numbers. Just VOTE.

- There's no public or known rabbinic endorsement for incumbent BOE candidates in Lakewood 

- Giyus update: Frum partie celebrate the firing of Defense Minister Galant by Netanyahu, it was Gallant who spearheaded  the current draft war on charedim and he was about to issue 7000 recruitment letters to yeshiva students.

- As of 1:30pm, Ocean County election turnout is at 104,055, with 11,717 of those in Lakewood, for a total of 32,111 votes so far in Lakewood, or exactly 50% of registered voters.

- Lower voter turnout reported in Atlantic City than in 2020

- Former VP Press Sec Marc Lotter: "The math doesn't work. The Democrats are down 1.7 million early votes in the battleground states. In urban areas, they are down 1.4 million votes."

- Elon Musk is headed to Mar a Lago he will spend election  night coverage with President Trump.

- NJ12 news was in Lakewood this afternoon at the township building polling district reporting empty lines, those interviewed said that the economy a d presidential election brought them  to the polls. The early voting turnout in Ocean county was the 3rd highest in New Jersey. Ocean county sheriff told NJ12 so fat there's been no reports of any issues.

-Lakewood election update

Heavy turnout in Lakewood this morning, with over 8,000 people casting a ballot before 12pm, for a total of 28,000 votes cast so far, which is just shy of the overall turnout in the 2020 presidential election. Still another 7 hours before the polls close.(shlomo Schorr)

- Nate Silver: Last and final update: 12:30 a.m., Tuesday, November 5. Happy Election Day! At exactly midnight on Tuesday, we ran our simulation model for the final time in this election cycle. Out of 80,000 simulations, Kamala Harris won in 40,012 (50.015%) cases. She did not win in 39,988 simulations (49.985%). Of those, 39,718 were outright wins for Donald Trump and the remainder (270 simulations) were exact 269-269 Electoral College ties: these ties are likely to eventually result in Trump wins in the U.S. House of Representatives.

- Photos of long lines during early voting in Lakewood spurred some reaction on social media of Trump flipping NJ, but apparently it's not enough

- Closed for election day in NJ

 (MVC) will be closed.

All New Jersey state offices and courts are closed.

Most public schools will be closed used for voting locations 

- Sounds like the Vaad campaign: 

Mark Levin: My son is a college student in Philly. Since Friday he has received:

3 door knocks

21 texts 

9 phone calls 

13 pieces of mail 

All for Harris. Zero for Trump.

We are gonna win PA.

- Ben Shapiro: Literally the worst case scenario for the country. Why? The 2020 census was wrong, as the Census Bureau has admitted...and it gave extra electoral college votes to blue states. If they'd done it right, Trump would win WITHOUT any of the blue wall states. Get ready for lawsuits.

- Last minute letter issued by lakewood roshei yeshiva in support of incumbent townahip committee members, after 32% of Lakewood  voted already. The letter did not address the taxes they raised, the traffic or the diversion of public funds intended to ease traffic. There was no mention of the Lakewood vaad at all or support of Boe or fire commissionees. Despite no official public acccsess to the committee  members, the letter states they are approachable and greet everyone nicely, as lakewood is growing with over 300 shuls 200 mosdos and 20,000 families.The letter concludes with the importance of participating in elections to help klal Yisrael as previous  gedolim have involved themselves with elections in the US and EY,such as Rav Aharon Kotler, Rav Shach and the chofetz chaim.

- National religious continue campaign  against charedim as  2 knesset members of the far-right Religious Zionism party appear to backtrack after  saying they would not vote for the Daycare Law being pushed by the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party to preserve subsidies for charedi working mothers.

- A Vote for Moshe Raitzik is a vote for Lakewood tax payers more

- Trump cookies were sold out at GG somebKamala ones left

Krispy Kreme donuts opening location and factory in Lakewood, NJ November 12,It will be located at the Town & Country Shopping Center at 1900 Route 70 in Lakewood near Bingo on the former McDonald's. No word about any kosher supervision, other branches that have a kosher supervision are not chalav Yisroel. 

- Submitted 

True of False is it appropriate to distribute VAAD voting material to people waiting online to vote?

True or False did any of federal or state funding intended for taxpayer improvement actually help taxpayers or did it go for Avenue of Americas and the Georgian Court BMG project?

True or false did any of Lakewood taxpayers see a reduction in taxes or tuition because of the last recomendation of the VAAD?

Tru or False did any taxpayer have the ability to attend in person an actual Lakewood Township Committe meeting? (It is virtual, they dont have enough respect for us taxpayers to actually have an in person meeting, most probably the only town in NJ that does this)

It is time for an actual association to represent the taxpayers.

Make you own decisions as who you should vote for on local level. Vote for people who actually care about the taxpayer and the renters. There are choices. Choice wisely.

Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita voting earlier today in Philadelphia. The RY publicly endorsed Donald Trump for president