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Trenton NJ, Senator Steve Oroho and Assemblymen Parker Space and Hal Wirths (R-24) issued the following statement in response to Governor Murphy’s announcement that the November election will be limited to vote-by-mail:
“This shouldn’t be mandated. It should be up to individual voters to decide. If they want a mail-in ballot they can ask for one, and if they want to vote in person, they shouldn’t be prohibited from doing that.
Dr. Fauci has said there is no reason people can’t vote in person as long as they wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines
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Totowa NJ, Senator Kristin Corrado reacted to Governor Murphy’s announcement that the general election in November will be done by mail, calling it an unnecessary over-reaction and an affront to hard-earned voting guarantees.
Sen. Kristin Corrado reacted to Gov. Murphy’s announcement that the general election in November will be done by mail, calling it an unnecessary over-reaction and an affront to hard-earned voting guarantees.
Continue reading State Senator Kristin Corrado Denounces Vote-By-Mail Decision for November Election
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Ridgewood NJ, Governor Phil Murphy is expected to announce today, voters in New Jersey will cast their ballots this fall to decide the next president and whether marijuana will be legal mostly through mail in an attempt to keep the coronavirus from spreading.
Continue reading Murphy Administration to Push Vote By Mail in November
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“Voting by an electronic device in person is pretty much effective in being fraud-free.
Voting by mail involves so much that is susceptible to fraud. The main two are:
1. Who knows if the mail-in ballot was completed by the person on the form?
2. The form is opened by a election official. Who know if that official is honest? Who knows if they discard or alter any forms that don’t go with the party/candidate that they favor?
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Ridgewood NJ, The Village of Ridgewood is suing the Bergen County Board of Elections for rejecting 710 ballots from May’s vote-by-mail election, demanding the county review the tossed votes, which could have substantially changed the election results. Ridgewood residents cast around 5,400 ballots last month. The Village claims that voters were not notified if their ballots were rejected, and village authorities were not informed about the disqualifications until June 5, three weeks after the election.
Continue reading Village Attempts to Rewrite Election Results and School Budget Cuts with a Lawsuit
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Ridgewood NJ, In response to an Open Public Records Act request I recently submitted to the Bergen County Clerk’s Office, I have just received a list containing the last name, first name, middle initial, and street address for every Ridgewood voter whose mail in ballot was REJECTED in connection with the May 12, 2020 Board of Education, Board of Education Budget, and Village Council General Election.
The list contains the names of 710 voters. That is, 710 of the ballots submitted for the aforementioned election were rejected/not counted. The reasons for rejection are not specified in the document I received. However, many appear to have been received after the specified cut off date of Thursday, May 14, 2020.If my calculations are correct, approximately 15% of the total ballots submitted were rejected/not counted. Wow! That’s alarming, to say the least. I do not know whether the County Clerk’s Office has a notification process in place for rejected ballots. Thus, some of these voters may not know that their ballot was rejected.
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Paterson NJ,Governor Phil Murphy announced his decision that the election he already postponed until July 7 will be conducted primarily by mail, with most registered Democrats and Republicans automatically getting a ballot and everyone else registered receiving an application for a mail-in ballot. What could possibly go wrong?
Continue reading Vote By Mail: 19% of votes in Paterson City Council election are disqualified
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Trenton NJ, Senator Joe Pennacchio today called the right to vote one of our most paramount rights, and once again criticized Governor Murphy’s governing by edict.
Murphy declared the July 7 primary, delayed from the original June 2 date, will “mostly be vote-by-mail.”
Continue reading Governor Murphy’s Vote by Mail Edict Comes Under Fire
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Ridgewood NJ, All registered voters have received in the mail the Ridgewood Board of Education election ballot (to vote on the Board of Education budget and elect one Board of Education member for an unexpired 1-year term and two Board of Education members to three-year terms) and the Ridgewood Municipal election ballot (to elect three Village Councilmembers to 4-year terms). These elections will be a Vote by Mail election only, and there will be no voting at the polling places. There are two separate ballots in the envelope which was sent to you, one for the Board of Education and the second one for the Village Council. The Vote by Mail ballots must be postmarked by May 12, 2020 and received at the County by May 14, 2020. Keeping in mind that the mail service may be slower than usual, you are encouraged to vote your ballot and mail it back in the postage paid envelope, as soon as possible so that your vote will count.
Continue reading IMPORTANT UPDATED RIDGEWOOD ELECTION INFORMATION DUE TO COVID-19
April 30, 2020
Dear Ridgewood School Community,
Registered voters in Ridgewood should have begun to receive their vote-by-mail ballots for the Annual School Election and the Municipal Election. Ballots must be postmarked on Election Day (May 12) and received by the County Board of Elections within 48 hours. Ballots received after 8 pm on May 14 will not be counted; therefore, it is important to return your ballot as soon as possible.
Continue reading Annual Ridgewood School Board Election – May 12
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Ridgewood NJ, Your ballots will be coming soon. When it comes to The Village Council, DO NOT VOTE FOR PAM PERRON OR MAHMOUD HAMZA. Pam Perron in zoom meetings has stated that she is (1) in favor of high-density housing (2) in favor of moving all elections to November, in which case citizens would no longer be able to vote on proposed Board of Education budgets (3) in favor of combining the Village Council and the Board of Education (educate yourself, Pam, this cannot be done at the local level, it has to be done by state legislators) (4) in favor of giving big money to the library. Somehow she also thinks she could be a negotiator for police and fire contracts, something that Village Councilmen do not do. Mahmoud Hamza is in favor of high density housing and he believes astro turf is safe. Worst of all, both of these candidates are backed by the worst of the worst – Halaby, Aronsohn, Sonenfeld, Hauck, Harwin, Winograd, Phillips, Willett, Lehman and more have signed on for them. If you want to see our village go all the way downhill on the course that Aronsohn started, vote for them. If you want to preserve Ridgewood with sensible development and smart, informed representatives, vote LORRAINE REYNOLDS, Sergio Alegre, and Bernadette Walsh.
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Glen Rock NJ,Dr. Arati Kreibich released the following statement in response to Governor Phil Murphy’s decision to issue an Executive Order moving New Jersey’s primary election:
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Ridgewood NJ, this afternoon, Governor Murphy issued an Executive Order regarding New Jersey elections scheduled through May 12, 2020. Please note that March and April elections have been postponed until May 12, 2020 and all elections now scheduled for May 12 will be conducted solely via vote-by-mail ballot. This means all registered voters will be mailed a vote-by-mail ballot and there will be no in-person voting at polling places for these elections. These changes do not impact the June Primary Election.
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Ridgewood NJ, A New Jersey government panel has struck down the state’s automatic vote-by-mail enrollment law as an unconstitutional unfunded mandate.
The Council on Local Mandates, which is independent of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of State government, was created pursuant to the “State Mandate, State Pay” amendment to the New Jersey Constitution, approved by voters in November 1995, and an enabling statute, the Council Statute, that became effective in May 1996.
Initially the Council appeared to siding in favor of the current law but according to the Burlington County Times on Friday found against it .
The law, first enacted in 2018 and then amended this past summer, requires county clerks to automatically issue vote-by-mail ballots to registered voters who previously requested them for any upcoming election. Previously, voters had to request a new vote-by-mail ballot for each election.
Continue reading New Jersey’s Automatic Vote-by-Mail enrollment law Ruled an Unconstitutional Unfunded Mandate
