I just saw a new Scott Garrett ad that totes up all the "votes," including 2 Congressional elections, in which Roy Cho has supposedly failed to vote. Of course, it starts with the charge that Roy has lived in the NJ5th only 18 months, which isn't even long enough to have voted against Garrett once. And there's no mention of whether Garrett has voted in the same local elections he claims Cho has missed.
Anyhow, is there any reason to draw a parallel between voting in local elections and actually representing a district in Congress? I don't see it. Poor Garrett. He can't run on his own record, so he has to thrash around and actually spend some of his money on smearing the first real opponent he's had since his first primary.
And here's the other side of the charges, that Cho did vote after he signed a lease in Hackensack, but in the wrong place. Someone in Garrett's campaign had to do some very hard work to gin up a charge of "voter fraud" from voting where you've been registered through college and law school, and two years occupying a desk and an apartment across the river in New York City. I wish someone in Garrett's office could work that hard on constituent services.
Of course, local elections and individual constituents aren't Garrett's biggest interest. All of his top-ten, five-figure campaign contributors are the businesses he serves first.