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LONG BRANCH-EATONTOWN, NJ This year's general election will take place on Nov. 2, and voters in Long Branch and Eatontown have the option of casting their ballot either by mail using a secure dropbox, hand-delivering it to your local board of elections, or voting at your local polling location.

This year, voters can also vote early at in-person voting at select locations starting Saturday, Oct. 23 through Sunday, Oct. 31 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Must-Know Election Info

Election date: Nov. 2

Check if you are registered to vote.

Where can I vote in person?

Mail-in ballot postmarked by deadline: Nov. 2

Mail-in ballot received by deadline: Nov. 8

What Will You See On Your Ballot?On the state side of things, there is a gubernatorial race this year, with current governor Phil Murphy being challenged by Republican Jack Ciattarelli, Libertarian Gregg Mele, Joanne Kuniansky of the Socialist Workers Party, and Madelyn Hoffman, who is representing the Green Party.

For Lt. Governor, incumbent Shelia Oliver is facing opposition from Diane Allen of the Republican Party, Eveline Brownstein of the Libertarian Party, Vivian Sahner of the Socialist Workers Party, and Heather Warburton of the Green Party.

There will also be both a State Senate and State Assembly race on this year's ballot. In Asbury Park, which is in legislative district 11, incumbent Democrat state senator Vin Gopal and assemblymen, Eric Houghtaling and Joann Downey are running against Republican senate nominee Lori Annetta and Marilyn Piperno, and Kimberley Eulner for the assembly. Asbury Park resident Dominque Faison is running for a set on the assembly as a Green Party candidate.

Long Branch does not have any municipal elections this November but does have a school board election where two current board members are running, Caroline Bennett and Violeta Peters are running on a ticket with former superintendent Joseph Ferraina against Maria Teresa Benosky for three seats of the Board of Education.

As for Eatontown, six candidates are running for two seats on the borough council: Republicans David Gindi and Everett D. Lucas, Mariel Hufnagel, and Coleen Burnett, who are the Democratic nominees, while current Councilwoman Jasmine Story and Dee Slattery, are running on an independent ticket.

For the Eatontown Board of Education, there are three openings with four candidates running. The only incumbent running is Maysee Y. Jacobs, with the other candidates being Jacquline Maguire, Deidre Seaman, and Jennifer Kopach.

There are also two statewide ballot questions: one is for the permitting of betting on all college teams at casinos and sportsbooks in the state. Currently, you are not allowed to bet on a New Jersey college sports team.

The other question is for the permitting of all groups to used the net proceeds from bingos or raffles to benefit their group. At the moment, only veterans and senior citizen groups can profit off of bingos and raffles.

Election Day is Nov. 2 and keep reading Patch for all of your Election 2021 updates.

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Ten years after the Mariel Boatlift brought more than 125,000 Cuban immigrants to Florida, an economist named David Card wrote about the immigrant influx and its impact on Miamis labor market.

Card determined there was virtually no effect on wages and jobless rates of the citys less skilled workers. Three years after those conclusions, Cards work on immigration as well as other research on hot-button topics like minimum wage have landed him the honor of a 2021 Nobel Prize in economics.

His studies from the early 1990s challenged conventional wisdom, leading to new analyses and additional insights, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. The other award recipients were Joshua Angrist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Guido Imbens from Stanford University.

Its often difficult to see the immediate implications of research, Card said in a press conference held hours after learning he was one of three people receiving the prominent prize.

But for some who focus on big-picture questions of immigration and economic competitiveness, the impact of Cards research at the University of California, Berkeley, and previously at the University of Chicago and Princeton University is clear to see, even as the debate over immigration reform continues.

He was the rock from which we all started, according to Jeremy Robbins, executive director of New American Economy. The organization founded 11 years ago by Michael Bloomberg, the data-driven former New York City mayor focuses on the ways to grow local economies that meld immigration reform and access for people coming to America.

Immigrants or their children founded 40% of Fortune 500 companies, according to New American Economys first report.

When New American Economy works with local leaders in places where new immigrants are arriving, Robbins said they start with scrutiny of the facts on the ground. The first thing we always do, we show who is there, where they work. In the same insight of David Card, you have to show with data what impact immigrants are having in the communities where they are living.

In the same insight of David Card, you have to show with data what impact immigrants are having in the communities where they are living.

Cards impact has been enormous, according to Alex Nowrasteh, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. He really does show the cost of immigration has been systemically exaggerated over the years and decades.

But still immigration debates continue and thats because, Nowrasteh said, people dont know or care about what the actual research says and they rely on stereotypes or anecdotes. There are other other academic methods to show larger immigrant impacts on wages, but Cards formulas and approaches, Nowrasteh said, set the real standard.

People seem to want to choose the messages that confirm their opinion, he said.

Cards academic recognition on immigration topics stems back to the Mariel Boatlift, which unfolded between April and October of 1980. Fidel Castro allowed Cubans who wanted to flee his repressive regime to exit via the port of Mariel. Approximately 125,000 people fled.

The events were just the type of natural experiments Card searched for. In a 1990 paper for Industrial and Labor Review, he said Miamis labor force jumped 7%, but that growth showed virtually no effect on the wage rates of less skilled non-Cuban workers.

Card observed Miamis job market had been absorbing immigrants into its unskilled labor force from Cuba, Nicaragua and elsewhere long before the boatlift, and the local economy was well suited for the situation with its textile and apparel industries.

The [immigration] debate isnt about facts anymore. Its about a bunch of feelings. That is something statistics cant explain.

Other data-driven studies followed, hitting on the money angle of immigration and challenging the idea that immigrants cut into the job prospects of people already situated in a labor market.

Hes focused on other labor-market topics, including the effect on gender preferences in job listings.

At Mondays press conference, Card said his research and the research of fellow economists are inputs to an understanding of a complex matter. The kinds of knowledge we can bring are not necessarily the whole story, he said.

However, Card said, it would be helpful if lawmakers could evaluate evidence on topics like minimum-wage levels and immigration policies from a scientific view and not from an ideological view but hes not particularly optimistic.

Last month, the Senates parliamentarian, whose role is nonpartisan, said Democrats could not include a pathway to citizenship in a reconciliation bill geared toward improving the social safety net. At the time, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said leaders would be holding future meetings with the parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough. (Bills passed via the budget reconciliation process require only a Senate majority, rather than a filibuster-proof 60 votes, but have to meet standards as interpreted by the parliamentarian.)

Like Card, Nowrasteh doesnt express optimism that change to immigration laws will come swiftly in Washington, D.C. The debate isnt about facts anymore, said Nowrasteh. Its about a bunch of feelings. That is something statistics cant explain.

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LONG LIVE liberty, goddammit! proclaimed Javier Milei, a 50-year-old economist, at a meeting of comic-book aficionados in Buenos Aires in 2019. He went dressed as General Ancap, a character he invented who is the fictional leader of Liberland, a plot of land covering seven square kilometres that is disputed between Croatia and Serbia and which a Czech libertarian politician declared sovereign in 2015. Ancap is a portmanteau for anarcho-capitalist, a strand of libertarianism that seeks to abolish the state in favour of unfettered free markets. Mr Mileis superhero mission is to kick Keynesians and collectivists in the ass.

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Today Mr Milei is poised to become a national deputy for the real country of Argentina. In the first round of voting on September 12th (technically a form of primary) the alliance he leads got the third-highest number of votes in the city of Buenos Aires, the only place where it was on the ballot. It had been registered less than two months before the election. If the results are repeated in November, which is likely, it could win two seats in Congress. This would make Mr Milei the first self-described libertarian in Argentinas legislature, says Martin DAlessandro, a political scientist at the University of Buenos Aires.

Mr Milei won recognition as an eccentric guest on talk-shows, eventually becoming the countrys most interviewed economist on television and radio. A self-styled professor of tantric sex and one-time frontman of an obscure rock band, he claims not to have brushed his hair since he was 13, preferring to let the invisible hand do the work. His five mastiffs are named after economists, including Murray Rothbard, an anarcho-capitalist, and Milton Friedman, a more conventional one. To make Argentina a great power again, he wants to reduce regulations, lower taxes and eliminate the central bank. He dislikes abortion, believing liberty to be unattainable if one cannot first be born. But same-sex marriage should be legal, as should most narcotics.

Libertarianism is finding fertile ground among youngsters. One candidate on Mr Mileis list for city legislators is 18 years old and still in secondary school. My generation has grown up in recessionobviously that makes me think that what we have tried so far isnt working, says Iaki Gutirrez, a 20-year-old who voted for Mr Milei. Lilia Lemoine, a cosplayer who has over 100,000 followers on Instagram and is Mr Mileis make-up artist, promotes his ideas by occasionally posting raunchy selfies wearing T-shirts with such slogans as Free Market & Private Property.

Some analysts see Mr Milei as part of a resurgence of liberal ideas of all sorts. Ricardo Lpez Murphy, a liberal economist and former presidential candidate, competed after a ten-year hiatus from politics and got 11% of the votes in the capital (he ran within the main opposition coalition). Jos Luis Espert, a liberal candidate in the wider province of Buenos Aires, where a third of the countrys voters live, got 5% of votes there. In Argentinas crowded primaries those are big numbers. This is a response against the Peronist logic of solving all problems through the state, says Lucas Romero, a political analyst, referring to the movement that has governed Argentina for most of the past 70 years.

The interest in libertarianism also reflects a backlash against conventional politics. The particular brand of Peronism promoted by the current vice-president, Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner, who was president from 2007 to 2015, left Argentina with a currency nobody trusts, sky-high inflation and economic stagnation. The opposition, in power between 2015 and 2019, piled up debt but failed to improve things. If Kirchnerism has become the establishment, libertarianism has become the reaction to the status quo, says Juan Germano, head of Isonoma Consultants, a pollster. Almost half of voters do not identify with any of the big parties, up from 39% in 2019. Turnout was the lowest it has been since such elections were introduced in 2011. Mr Milei, who attacks government and opposition members together as a political caste, is a big winner, but other parties, such as Marxists, got record results too.

Indeed, many of the people Mr Milei draws in are more conventionally right-wing, opposed to government policies such as legalising abortion and creating a quota for trans people in government jobs. I will ally with all those who believe that the left is the enemy, Mr Milei told The Economist. He recently signed a letter sponsored by Vox, an ultranationalist party in Spain, that rails against the advance of communism in the Spanish-speaking world. Even climate change, he claims, is a socialist lie. Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of Brazils president, and Jos Antonio Kast, a far-right presidential candidate in Chile currently polling in second place, have endorsed Mr Milei.

Will this growing popularity last? If the next government manages to stabilise the economy, Mileis discourse will lose its appeal, says Sergio Berensztein, a political consultant. Third parties have done well before in the capital, especially in times of crisis, only to implode soon after.

Nonetheless, Mr Milei is having an impact. The head of the main opposition party has adopted his term political caste. Even President Alberto Fernndez seems nervous. He told a young audience shortly before the primaries that being rebellious should mean embracing hippy and rock culture and May 1968, not liberal ideas that, he said, caused catastrophe and penury for millions. Liberland may be no match for Argentinas 2.7m square kilometres, but General Ancap is conquering ground in the battle of ideas.

This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "No me pises"

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Yes, well choose a new mayor in the general election on Nov. 2. But there are other big city jobs up for grabs on the ballot, too.

The city comptroller, public advocate, five borough presidents and Manhattan district attorney are all up for election.

While its likely that the winners of the Democratic primaries in June will prevail, nothing is for certain until Election Day. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 7-to-1 in New York City, according to the most recent state vote tallies. But nearly a million active voters arent registered to a party, about 20% of the total.

Heres our brief guide to all the citywide and borough offices you may have overlooked as Democrat Eric Adams and Republican Curtis Sliwa duke it out for Gracie Mansion.

(Reminder: To find out who exactly is on your ballot for all offices, use this tool from the citys Board of Elections to find a sample ballot. Type in your address, click Look Up, then click View Sample Ballot.)

Candidates who will appear on the Nov. 2 ballot are listed below in alphabetical order:

Related: What does a comptroller do?

Daby Benjamine Carreras (Republican and Save Our City parties): Carreras is a money manager and East Harlemite. He has previously run for City Council, State Assembly and once served as vice president of the Manhattan Republican Party.

Brad Lander (Democrat): Lander currently serves as the City Council member representing Carroll Gardens, Park Slope and Kensington. Prior to government work, he directed a community planning center at Pratt Institute.

Paul A. Rodriguez (Conservative): Rodriguez is a Queens native who now works in fundraising, but previously was on Wall Street as a stock analyst, broker and risk manager, according to his campaign website.

John A. Tabacco Jr. (Libertarian and Independent): Tabacco is the host of Liquid Lunch, a markets and news talk show on BizTV. The Staten Islander was arrested this summer for refusing to wear a mask at a Board of Elections office on the island.

Related: What does a public advocate do?

Devin Balkin (Libertarian): Delvin, a Manhattan native, is a civic technologist and open source advocate who runs a nonprofit that aims to improve the city through better use of tech. He ran for public advocate in 2017 and 2019, his campaign website says.

Anthony Herbert (Conservative and Independent): Herbert is a longtime anti-violence activist, media consultant and government staffer at the federal, state and local levels.

Dr. Devi Nampiaparampil (Republican and Save Our City parties): Nampiaparampil, who goes by Dr. Devi, is a physician and professor at the NYU School of Medicine and television health commentator.

Jumaane Williams (Democrat): Williams has served as public advocate since 2019 and previously represented Flatbush and surrounding neighborhoods in the City Council.

Related: Dont know what a borough president does? Weve got a guide on New Yorks mini-mayors here.

The Bronx

Brooklyn

Manhattan

Queens

Staten Island

Alvin Bragg (Democrat): Bragg, a Harlem native, served most recently as chief deputy attorney general for New York State. He also led a special state unit that investigated police-involved killings and served as a federal prosecutor.

Thomas Kenniff (Republican): Kenniff is a criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor and Iraq War veteran who served as a judge advocate general in the military. He is a current member of the Army National Guard and a founding partner at his law firm, Raiser & Kenniff.

Only Manhattan has a competitive race for district attorney this year. Eric Gonzalez, the incumbent Brooklyn DA, will be on the ballot for residents of Kings County, but he has no challengers.

If you have any questions about the election process, the candidates or any other information when it comes to voting in New York, let us know by replying to this email or sending a note to civicnewsroom@thecity.nyc.

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Yes.

David Colborne was active in the Libertarian Party for two decades. During that time, he blogged intermittently on his personal blog, ran for office twice as a Libertarian candidate, and served on the executive committee for his state and county Libertarian Party chapters. He is now an IT manager, a registered non-partisan voter, and the father of two sons. You can follow him on Twitter @DavidColborne or email him at [emailprotected].

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David...

Yes...?

Were not publishing a one-word column.

Why not? I wrote a 4,500-word column in February. If you average them, it works out to more than 2,000 words per column.

The length of most of your columns and what each one does to my weekend is a separate discussion. Im talking about this one in particular.

Whats wrong with it?

Its a one-word column.

So it shouldnt take long to edit.

Opinion columns are supposed to take a firm stand...

Did I stutter?

and attempt to persuade the reader to agree.

Who am I going to persuade, exactly? The 74 percent of Republican voters who believe Biden only won because of fraud? The openly craven Republican candidates, like Adam Laxalt and Joey Gilbert, who are pandering to these people by openly claiming Donald Trump is a dispossessed antipope holding court in Mar-a-Lago?

Perhaps I can convince more cowardly Republican candidates, like Dean Heller and James Wheeler, who believe mouthing the words election integrity and forensic audit while swallowing any mention of Biden or Harris will let them straddle both sides of the line, all while they claim credit for the courage of their convictions to their base whenever someone like me calls them out for the disingenuousness.

Maybe I can convince invertebrate Republicans like Joe Lombardo, who cant opine because hes not aware of that. Who needs a spine when youre running as a cryogenically defrosted jellyfish who hibernated through the last 24 months?

Multiple audio recordings of Trump making clearly outlandish claims of voter fraud didnt persuade them, even though, if Trumps numbers were accurate, nearly 10 percent of the votes cast in Georgia would have been fraudulent. The dismissal of more than fifty election fraud lawsuits didnt persuade them, either. The conservative-funded Cyber Ninjas forensic audit reaching the conclusion that Biden won Arizona didnt persuade them on the contrary, now the CEO of Cyber Ninjas is getting harassed because his partisan-funded audit didnt prove a different election result. The utter failure of Mike Lindells cyber symposium to make a single provable claim of election fraud didnt persuade them, either.

Why should I expect anything I write to be any different?

Considerable time and energy was spent during the latter half of the 20th century keeping the limits of mainstream political discourse within eyesight of objective reality. William F. Buckley helped Republicans keep Birchers a group of conservatives following a candy salesman who believed the Americans and Soviets were conspiring together in an Illuminati-led plot at arms length from most meaningful levers of power. Democrats, meanwhile, fought desperately to keep Lyndon LaRouche a fraud who used baroque conspiracy theories to bilk supporters out of millions away from the party and politics more generally. Neither mainstream Republicans nor Democrats were wholly successful, but at least they tried to ground their ideologies and proposed policies on actual facts on the ground.

The reason both parties kept the conspiratorial fringe away from power is because once someone is convinced British monarchs are drug peddling lizard people, once someone is convinced Americans and Soviets are two sides of the same Illuminati-controlled coin, once someones convinced children are being trafficked through online furniture companies, theres no end to where their delusions may take them. Sure, you might be able to convince them youre on their side, that youre no sheeple, at least for an election but what happens when your facts go up against their imagination, like what happened in Arizona? Or, worse yet, what happens when they decide you need their help to uncover the vast conspiracy youre both supposedly in on?

There was a time when conservative intellectuals understood that conspiratorial thinking was fundamentally the product of an authoritarian mindset the product of a mindset which assumes human history can be led down a path which solely advances the ends of those leading humanity, with or without the consent of those being led, with or without the overt terror normally needed to keep people in line. It is, in short, a fairytale for despots who would love nothing more than for this to be possible, who would love nothing more than to set a chessboard in their mind, make their opening move, and then win by default. In reality, even though chess is a two person game on a standard board with simple rules, chessmasters still have opponents, and those opponents get a say in how each game goes. Authoritarianism, and central planning more generally, is a one-against-many game, one in which each player, and Mother Nature itself, gets a say in how the board is set up and what the rules will be. By its very nature, its doomed to failure.

Now, however, theyre openly cheering Trump on. When youre in a Flight 93 election, when youre in a counter-revolutionary moment, you dont sweat little things like due process or the consent of the governed. You dont sweat little things like accurately counting every vote in a world in which millions of votes are potentially fraudulent, why shouldnt some of those millions be fraudulent in your favor? You dont even sweat an insurrection on live television, committed by supporters of Donald Trump, which tore through the nations capitol it was a hoax, actually, and even if it wasnt, Black Lives Matter protests did more damage in more cities, so its special pleading to hold conservative protesters accountable when they demand Congress throw out electoral votes and sack the Capitol when they dont get their way. Besides, 11 million more Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2020 than in 2016 surely we cant suppress their expressed will?

Perhaps, but lets not pretend Joe Biden didnt also pick up 15 million more votes than Hillary Clinton who, by the way, received three million more votes than Trump in 2016 either. Those 15 million voters get a say in how this country is run, too.

So here we are, in a state and a nation where one political party is wholly and enthusiastically in thrall to a delusion, self-justified on the grounds that, well, its not like Hillary Clinton voters took their defeat well (Remember when members of the Womens March stormed Congress in 2017 and put several police officers in the hospital? Me neither.), so why shouldnt they fight back with delusions of their own?

Perhaps because My imagination can beat up your imagination is not a sustainable basis for peaceful coexistence. Perhaps because, when one person points at the Moon and screams, Its blue!, the answer isnt to scream, No, its red, and I have a God-given right to shoot you for disagreeing! Perhaps because two wrongs dont make a right, especially when the second wrong is exponentially worse than the first.

But, again, who am I going to persuade? Im not offering free candy or presents, so Im much less persuasive than the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus and Im not offering the restoration of God-Emperor Trump to his throne in the White House, from which his benevolent light can hold back the forces of Chaos, so Im much less persuasive than Newsmax or OAN.

Perhaps I can persuade the 95 percent of Democratic voters who believe Biden won fair and square? Oh wait, they already agree with me.

Or do we actually think the 11 percent of Nevadans who told the Mellman Poll they dont know whether our president was elected or not were serious about that response and not just trying to hang up the phone as fast as humanly possible? Or perhaps I should pretend people too disinterested to have an opinion one way or the other about whos president of the United States and whether he was elected fairly or not read opinion columns?

You could always write about something else.

Its true, I could write another column about COVID-19, a pandemic which enjoys widespread transpartisan agreement and support on its nature, appropriate public policy countermeasures, and responsible individual choices.

Ahem.

Speaking of COVID-19, I could write about how Idahos lieutenant governor briefly seized power while their governor was in Texas and banned vaccination and testing requirements, as well as vaccine passports. While she was in power, she also tried to deploy the Idaho National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border. Her orders were overturned as soon as Gov. Brad Miller returned, of course. Oh, and theyre both Republicans, so things are clearly going well for that party, even in states like Idaho where they enjoy single-party rule.

Alas, this is The Nevada Independent, not The Idaho Independent. On the other hand, imagine an alternate world where former lieutenant governor Kate Marshall seized the Governors Mansion and started issuing executive orders while Steve Sisolak went to a conference somewhere?

You wrote 4,500 words on blockchains, then wrote another 2,500 word follow-up three weeks later. Write about technology! Youre an IT Manager! Surely you have something interesting to say about it?

Windows 11 was released.

There you go! How will that affect Nevadans?

If theyre using a Windows computer, their computer was manufactured in the past few years, and their workplace isnt blocking upgrades to Windows 11, their Start Menu may move to the bottom-middle of their screen.

There are other changes, but most of them arent really noticeable unless you plan on running Linux applications on your Windows computer. Most people arent.

Youre being difficult.

Fine. Android 12 is also coming out.

Okay. How will that affect Nevadans?

It means the few Android phones in the state whose operating system updates arent blocked by their cell phone providers or by their manufacturer will reboot in late October. After they finish rebooting, those phones will have a more colorful user interface.

Anything else?

Probably, but it doesnt matter. Every other Android phone user will either have to wait for their manufacturer or cell phone provider to analyze the update, reinsert the value add software manufacturers and cell phone providers love so much, and issue the update to their phones, or theyll have to go without until they buy a new phone with Android 12 preinstalled.

As manufacturers and cell phone carriers make money on reselling phones, take a guess on which path theyd prefer you to take.

iPhone users will, of course, continue to routinely receive iOS updates for five years because Apple does not openly loathe their customers, even if they dont particularly trust them.

So you have an iPhone, then?

Absolutely not. Give me freedom to install custom operating systems on my phone or give me death!

So you wiped Android off your phone and replaced it with something else?

Absolutely not. That sounds complicated. Im an IT manager, not an IT professional. I have people and PowerApps for that now.

So you ordered someone else to wipe Android off your phone and replace it with something else?

Absolutely not.

Then was there a point to any of this?

Absolutely not.

Will you promise to Write Back Better next week? Preferably in fewer than three trillion words?

Absolutely not.

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Is Joe Biden the duly elected President of the United States of America? - The Nevada Independent