A Monmouth County Superior Court Judge has scheduled a July 2 preliminary hearing on the legal challenge to the Asbury Park City Council election, according to the civil case management office in Freehold. The challenge was filed by Daniel Harris III [right], an unsuccessful candidate on the A-Team slate. His petition seeks the counting of […]

A candidate on the losing A-Team slate has filed a lawsuit challenging the results of the Asbury Park City Council election on May 14. The petition, filed Tuesday by Daniel Harris III, contests the voiding of 332 vote by mail [VBM] ballots and the failure to count 32 provisional ballots by the Monmouth County Board […]

Shore-area Congressman Frank Pallone will formally announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate today at a press conference in Trenton. Pallone, 61, told the Associated Press that he’s in the race to fill the term of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg. A special election will be held on Oct. 16 to fill the seat. Pallone […]

Asbury Park Democratic Chairman Guiseppe “Joe” Grillo [above] is one of three plaintiffs in a lawsuit to stop the special election in October to fill the state’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. Republican Governor Chris Christie set the date for the election on Oct. 16. The winner will fill the seat left vacant by the death […]

A challenge to the results of the Asbury Park city council election has yet to be filed, according to Monmouth County court staff on Friday. The losing A-Team slate has repeatedly vowed to challenge the results of the May 14 election, specifically to request the opening of 320 voided vote by mail ballots — enough […]

Of the 320 vote by mail ballots voided in the Asbury Park City Council race — enough to change the election results — the Monmouth County Board of Elections rejected 236 for failure to disclose who assisted voters in filling out the initial application for the ballot, according to records obtained by the Sun. The […]

The Monmouth County Board of Elections last week voided 320 vote by mail ballots in Asbury Park  — enough to change the city council election results — but the board has not specified the reasons. “They said they’re not required to give it out. It’s private information. It’s been voided so you don’t need the […]

Following a count of 169 provisional ballots and 43 challenged vote-by-mail ballots on Friday, the winners of the Asbury Park city council election are the same as they were on the night of the election. No new ballots will be counted by the Monmouth County Board of Elections, its members said. The official results were […]

About 26 percent of the city’s registered voters turned out to cast their ballots in the Asbury Park council election on Tuesday, according to data provided by City Clerk Steve Kay. The city has 8,840 registered voters, and 1,445 of them, or 17 percent, voted at machines in their local voting districts. John Moor, Amy […]

The top five vote-getters in yesterday’s election expressed cautious excitement last night, celebrating their apparent victory but also remaining aware that if disputed ballots are eventually counted, some may not find themselves in office. “The ink still hasn’t dried, but I feel good,” said Myra Campbell [pictured above, left], who is currently in fifth place […]