Noel Issues Release Following Voll’s Election Board Hearing

COURT HOUSE — Following a hearing on Mike Voll’s voter registration status on Wed., Sept. 8 before the county Board of Elections, Bob Noel, campaign manager for incumbent Middle Township Mayor Susan DeLanzo issued the following release:
Voll Admits Improper Voting History
Voll Challenges Bob Noel to take it outside….
The County Board of Elections voted to require that Middle Township Committee candidate Mike Voll register to vote in Middle Township. Voll had been registered to vote in Middle Township, but his legitimacy as a voter had been challenged by Bob Noel. During the hearing, the Election Board took testimony and reviewed evidence as to Voll’s legitimacy as a voter.
Before the issue of whether or not Voll could vote in this November’s election was put to the Board for a vote, Voll said that he would register to vote. The Board voted unanimously to require that Voll register to vote.
After the hearing, Voll’s disputed voter registration was placed on inactive status. He then registered as a Middle Township voter. While now a legitimate registered voter in Middle Township, he cannot vote for a period of 29 days. If an election was held anytime before October 7, 2010, Voll could not vote in that election.
Bob Noel: “Voll’s fear of allowing the vote to go to the Board, and his eagerness to register all over again, is an admission that he knew that he was not a properly registered voter.”
The documentary evidence presented to the Election Board, and Voll’s testimony made under oath, confirmed that Voll knowingly maintained a voter registration in New Jersey and Florida at the same time, and that he voted where he chose:
April 7, 2005 – Voll was registered to vote in Middle Township.
April 8, 2005 – Voll registered to vote in Pinellas County, Florida.
April 19, 2005 – Just eleven days later, Voll votes in a Middle Township School Board election.
June 28, 2005 – Because his voter registration in New Jersey had been revoked when he registered in Florida, Voll re-registers in Middle Township.
November 2008 – Voll voted in Florida in the presidential election.
“The Board told Voll that what he did was wrong, and he knew it. Voll has been around politics for two decades, and he knows the election rules. He just seems to think that a different set of rules should apply to him,” said Noel.
The hearing was contentious, with Voll yelling and making threats. In one particularly bizarre outburst, Voll challenged Noel to go outside to settle their differences. “I did not think that was the way to settle a voter registration dispute,” said Noel.
When a member of the public asked the Board of Elections if they were going to refer the matter to the prosecutor or attorney general for voter fraud, Voll’s attorney threatened that if any person dares to file criminal charges against Voll that Voll will sue that person in civil court.
Noel exclaimed: “Wow! Challenges to fights, and threats of lawsuits, all in one hearing! I questioned it before, but I know it now, Voll does not have the character needed to be an elected official in Middle Township.”
Following the hearing, on his website, Voll claimed a victory, and declared that the Board of Elections found that he would be a candidate in November. Noel: “Voll is practicing his art of the spin. The Board voted that he had to properly register again in Middle Township, and he did. And the issue of whether he could be a candidate was never even discussed by the Election Board. His view of reality is suspect.”
Noel responded to Voll’s attacks against him: “Mike Voll has attacked Sue DeLanzo for decisions that she has made. But when I ask legitimate questions about decisions that he has made, such as where he lives and votes, Voll cries foul. The voting rules have to apply to all of us, even to Mike Voll.”
“Voll called me a coward during the hearing,” Noel noted. “I do not think that he knows what that word means. I have put my name to everything that I have said, and I stand by it. That is not cowardly. Mike Voll is the person who was registered in Florida, who took tax deductions in Florida, and voted in Florida, not me. He is responsible for his decisions, not me.”