Resurfaced rumors of a “stolen election” years ago in New Jersey are accurate, but the catch is that the most likely culprit this particular time was human error and incompetence.
The “stolen election” occurred on June 21, 2011, when a Democrat primary election was held for seats on the Fairfield Township Executive Committee.
According toNJ.com, then-Fairfield Deputy Mayor Ernest Zirkle received 9 votes, while his wife, Cynthia, received 10 votes. The other two candidates, Vivian and Mark Henry, received 34 and 33 votes, respectively.
However, following the election, the Zirkles obtained affidavits from 28 voters swearing they’d voted for them, not the Henrys. This founded the basis of the rumor that began circulating recently on the social media platform X:
Small local NJ election STOLEN using electronic voting machines with only 43 voters.
The final count was 33 to 10, but the woman who lost called the people that voted because she knew all of them, and they found out that her votes were switched with her opponents by someone on…pic.twitter.com/vW2zUg9mlo
— The SCIF (@TheSCIF)April 14, 2026
The couple subsequently filed a Superior Court petition demanding that the results of the election be voided, the touchscreen voting machine made by Sequoia be impounded, and a new election be held using paper ballots.
In the suit, the couple cited known issues with Sequoia machines, including firmware defects, bugs, hardware faults, and insecurity.
“The Sequoia AVC Advantage Direct-Recording Electronic Voting Machine utilized at this polling place was obviously not operating properly,” the petition read.
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