Community leader Daniel A. Harris III is the first candidate to go on the record with his bid to challenge the Asbury Together incumbents for one of three open City Council seats. The Asbury Together ticket is comprised of Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn, Councilwoman Yvonne Clayton and Councilwoman Eileen Chapman. Harris confirmed Monday evening that […]

The lawyer for the A-Team challengers whose suit was dismissed to count disqualified vote by mail [VBM] ballots from last year’s municipal election said the presence of a detective from the Monmouth County Prosecutors Office during the trial intimidated witnesses they needed from appearing. As a result, Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Dennis O’Brien “terminated the […]

A legal effort to trigger a mayoral run-off in Asbury Park appears to face long odds, as Mayor John Moor [right] says he’s one ballot away from winning the court case. In the November election, Moor defeated A-Team candidate Remond Palmer [above left] in a multi-candidate field by over 50 percent of the vote, avoiding […]

A Monmouth County Superior Court Judge will hear testimony in late February from over 230 Asbury Park voters whose ballots were rejected in the November municipal election. During a hearing Wednesday, Judge Dennis O’Brien granted the request Wednesday to lawyers representing A-Team candidates Remond Palmer and Arva M. Council. Palmer and Council [shown above] filed […]

Two candidates on the A-Team slate who were unsuccessful in their bids for office in November in Asbury Park have filed suit seeking the counting of 343 ballots disqualified by the Monmouth County Board of Elections. If counted, the ballots are potentially enough to trigger a run-off election between the top two vote-getters for Mayor […]

Two legislators from Monmouth and Hudson Counties have joined together to introduce legislation to curb the use of so-called “messenger ballots”. Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon [R-Monmouth] and Assemblyman Carmelo Garcia [D-Hudson] cited the wide-scale use of the ballots in Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Paterson and Hoboken as the impetus for the introduction of the measure, according to a […]

The Monmouth County Board of Elections has disqualified 353 vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots in the Asbury Park election. The Board allowed 340 VBM ballots to be counted, which increased the lead of the Asbury Together ticket. There are still 161 provisional ballots that need to be counted. Asbury Together has already claimed victory in four of […]

The Monmouth County Board of Elections on Monday began the tedious task of sifting through all of the Asbury Park vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots to determine which may be cast. At the end of day one, the board voided 26 of the first 38 ballots they examined which had been subject to a challenge by the […]

The A-Team slate in the city council race has filed its first round pre-election campaign finance report. Remond Palmer, who filed as an individual candidate and is the ticket’s candidate for mayor, also filed. The late filings were made on Oct. 22 with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission [ELEC]. Reports were due on Oct. 6. Filed […]

Asbury Park’s Cable Television Advisory Committee will host the city council candidates’ forums this evening. Individuals who seek election in the Nov. 4 city council race will go head-to-head in the debate-style election forum at 7 p.m. in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Harold Daley Post #133, located at 701 Lake Ave. The League of Women […]