Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Residents are sending multiple e-mail applications, creating an influx of requests.
Electronic voting is causing headaches at the Monmouth County Board of Elections as employees file e-mail requests for ballots. “I can’t even begin to estimate how many have come in. People are submitting the e-mail several times,” said Laura Kirkpatrick, a spokesperson for Monmouth County. After Hurricane Sandy displaced thousands of New Jersey residents, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno signed an order allowing voters to submit a mail-in ballot application by e-mail or fax. Once the request is received, Board of Elections workers have to verify that the individual is a qualified voter. Then, the registered voter receives a waiver of secrecy form along with the ballot to fill out and e-mail or fax back. In an age of instantaneous communication, some…
Local election winners will become clear soon
The polls are closed in the Long Branch-Eatontown area and residents are eagerly awaiting the results of the 2012 election. People came out in droves to Long Branch City Hall on Tuesday because of the change of polling locations throughout the city. The parking lot of city hall was filled with police directing traffic into it as voters from 13 of Long Branch's 17 voting districts were directed to go there because of Hurricane Sandy. The Long Branch Board of Education helped out by shuttling voters to and from Hobart Manor Kennedy Tower, Chester Arthur, Ten Pavilion and Washington Manor today. There are no contested elections in the city this year, but residents could still cast their vote for president, congress, senate, county clerk …
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The incumbent, Robert Menendez, is well financed and heavily favored over Republican State Senator Joseph Kyrillos.
U.S. Senate candidates Robert Menendez and Joe Kyrillos agree on little when it comes to the issues. The veterans of New Jersey politics are largely pushing party-line policy as voters take to the polls on election day. Menendez, a native of Union City, has been the heavy early favorite over the state legislator. A recent Philadelphia Inquirer poll had Menendez up 50-32 over Kyrillos, in line with polls conducted by Richard Stockton College and Quinnipiac University. Kyrillos, echoing larger party sentiments, favors extending tax cuts for the "job creators" making large sums of money and also relaxing corporate taxes. It's a philosophy not shared by Menendez, who says New Jersey families have been "victimized" by corporate loopholes and …
$6 million and $4 million facility improvement projects to be decided
Voters in Tinton Falls, Eatontown and Shrewsbury Township will decide the future of Monmouth Regional High School's two referendum questions today. The school, located in Tinton Falls, serves children from those three municipalities as well as children from Naval Weapons Stations Earle, and has two multi-million dollar facility upgrade projects it would like to begin. The first project has a total cost of $6,149,000 and includes asbestos removal, a renovation to the girls' locker room and science classrooms and the construction of a storage room near the girls' locker room. The second project has a total cost of $4,307,000 and includes the paving of school parking lots, the construction of an auxiliary gymnasium, the renovation of the …
Updates on the 2012 election will be posted here throughout the day.
- ELECTIONS
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Check back here all day for live election updates. Long Branch polling locations: Updated Monmouth County Polling Location List
Updates on the 2012 election will be posted here throughout the day.
- ELECTIONS
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Check back here all day for live election updates. Eatontown polling locations: Updated Monmouth County Polling Location List Eatontown Council candidate profiles can be found here Information on Monmouth Regional High School's referendum questions can be found here.
State has given its electoral votes to a Democrat in the last five elections.
If history is any indication, Barack Obama should have no problem winning New Jersey's 14 electoral votes in his quest for re-election on Tuesday. In the past four presidential elections, the Republican candidate has never been within 240,000 votes, and only once did a candidate get within 500,000 of his Democratic opponent. A look at statistics kept by the state shows that in the last four elections, incumbent president George W. Bush was the closest at picking up the NJ's nod, still losing to John Kerry by more than 240,000 votes. The biggest winner among the Democratic candidates in that span was incumbent Barack Obama, who won the state by more than 600,000 votes in 2008. The closest vote in 20 years came in 1992, when Bill Clinton …
Monday, November 5, 2012
Both parties also approve of governor's level of support for those more affected by Sandy.
Republicans will be mostly likely to benefit from a down voter turnout Tuesday in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, New Jersey political insiders believe. According to a Patch poll of state elected officials and party insiders, 15 of 22 Republican respondents believe voter turnout will be down slightly from where it would have been otherwise. Of 27 Democratic respondents, 26 expect there will be either a slight or sharp decline in turnout. "The areas likely to remain without power by Tuesday are predominantly smaller, suburban and rural communities that are typically Republican bases," one Republican respondent said. "Power restoration to urban areas, with higher Democratic concentration, seems to have been prioritized," the respondent …
In addition, the state is allowing residents who fled the state to vote electronically.
With many polling locations in Monmouth County and throughout the state changing due to the massive impact of Hurricane Sandy, some residents are finding themselves a little confused. The state of NJ is attempting to make things easier, by allowing residents to text 877877 with a full address, including town name and zip code, and a polling location will be texted back. Voters in 30 Monmouth County municipalities have had changes to their polling locations, according to the Monmouth County Clerk. In addition, the state is allowing residents who fled the state to vote electronically by email or fax with the following instructions: The County Clerk urges residents who are able to vote in-person to do so, and reserve electronic voting for …
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