Email Voting Issues Bergen County
9:32 AM (1 minute ago)
Ridgewood NJ, Hello, I am a new resident of Ridgewood and and I really appreciate your blog. My husband and I are staying in NYC because of Sandy while we wait for power back at our house. I just wanted to make you aware of a situation going on with the Bergen County Clerk’s office.
We submitted requests for email ballots and they sent us both River Edge ballots instead of Ridgewood, even though they typed our Ridgewood address into the ballot. It’s been impossible to reach them for a correction, and a lot of people I know have been trying to fax in the request for a ballot and you cannot even get a fax or phone call through to the Bergen County Clerk’s office.
I tried three different numbers for them, none of them are answering. I did manage to get a human on the phone around 7 am who said she would try to rectify the problem and send me Ridgewood ballot but I never heard back from her.
Have you heard of anyone else who received the wrong ballot, or who could not get their request for a ballot through at all? The whole thing seems like a complete failure.
We sent in the fax request for a ballot while this thing was still kind of under the radar … people I know who have been trying since last night and cannot get anything response!
I am a Ridgewood resident who fled to friends in North Carolina as a result of Sandy. I to was able to get a ballot but it also was for River Edge. I likewise was unable to get anyone to answer my emails. I sent it back by fax just not voting on any of the local issues. I also saw that the Lt. Gov. Has extended voting by email and fax to Friday.