A bill that curbs the use of messengers to bring vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots to voters was signed into law on Monday by Governor Chris Christie. Under the new law, designated messengers would be restricted to delivering VBM ballots to three voters in any election. The law currently allows a messenger to deliver 10 ballots. A […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 unofficial election results for the city council race are in — but A-Team candidate Jim Keady says more than 300 vote-by-mail ballots have yet to be counted. Keady learned that about 332 ballots were set aside, he said, with 80 of those ballots being “discarded because they were not filled out properly. That leaves […]