When criminals plan to steal something — whether jewels from the Louvre or a New Jersey election — they last thing they want around is a security camera.

That seems the likeliest explanation for this month’s decision by the Democratic-controlled Passaic County, NJ, Board of Elections to ban cameras for ballot storage areas in next month’s gubernatorial election.

And for its refusal to enforce sign-in and sign-out logs for people who access mail-in ballots.

State GOP Chairman Glenn Paulsen rightly calls this blatant preparation to steal the vote nothing short of “alarming.”

Why else, after all, would the board — whose chairman, John Currie, also happens to be head of the county’s Democratic Party — not want extra security measures that could make it harder to rig voting and boost

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