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I don't know where these people who were polled actually live; but in Southern NJ the polls are showing people intend to overwhelming vote NO on this increase $400 million open space loan capacity. 81% NO to 19% Yes..AC Press. Perhaps they are more enlightened? They know every NJ county and over half of every municipality is already charging them an open space acquistion tax, in the amount of over $410 million dollars every year. So, every NJ resident is already paying taxes for open space. We don't wish to be triple taxed, especially in this bad economy with our state on the verge of bankruptcy. The taxes we already pay for open space to our counties and municipalities is enough. Unfortunately, the hundreds of environmental groups who have grown since 1961, when NJ first funded Open space, would lose the steady stream of billions of dollars NJ residents have been supplying to open space acquistion programs and indirectly to those groups through open space grants which they use to purchase land. The fact that there appears to be a connection with some of the 44 arrests in NJ and the DEP in possible misdoings is all the more reason not to give even more money to the state open space program. Additionally, the state open space program needs to be fully investigated for not spending the billions of taxpayers money they have already received in an appropriate manner. I am voting NO on the Nov.3 open space ballot question and triple taxation.