Another layer of security will be in place during the Nov. 7 general election. Representatives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office will be on hand to assist voters with questions relating to everything from fraudulent voting and illegal voting to voter intimidation, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced Tuesday. “The Prosecutor’s Office will respond […]

Voters residing in the city’s Districts 1 and 9 will report to a new polling location for the upcoming June 7 Primary, according to a written news statement by city officials. The Monmouth County Board of Elections has changed the voting location to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Annex, located at 1143 Asbury Ave. […]

The Monmouth County Clerk has launched a new voter education website aimed at assisting voters. The website, www.MonmouthCountyVotes.com, was designed in collaboration with the Elections’ Board and the Monmouth County Superintendent of Elections. “We are very excited to provide this website to Monmouth County voters to assist them with all of their election needs and […]

The provisional ballots cast in the Asbury Park municipal and board of education elections have been counted. Provisional ballots are cast when it’s unclear if a voter is qualified to vote. On election day, 161 voters in Asbury Park cast a provisional ballot. About half of the ballots —72 — were counted, according to data from […]

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 […]

Members of the Asbury Together campaign have filed over 300 challenges to vote-by-mail [VBM] ballot applications with the Monmouth County Clerk of Elections that call into question whether members of the opposing A-Team ticket and the ticket’s campaign volunteers properly handled messenger ballot applications, according to an Asbury Together campaign release issued Thursday. Hundreds of […]

The Monmouth County Board of Elections will give a free public workshop on voting rules and regulations at the Asbury Park Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Post 1333, 701 Lake Avenue, on Thursday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m., according to a county news release. County Clerk Claire M. French will describe proper voting procedures, including […]

Vote-by-mail ballot use has exploded in this year’s election, with 640 voters using that method to cast their votes as of this afternoon. In the most recent city council election, in May 2009, only 61 people voted by mail. Of the 640 vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots cast so far, about 275 are messenger ballots, according to […]

Three of the four tickets in the Asbury Park council race have denied affiliation with 42 people who are acting as ballot messengers in the election. Campaign managers for the AP Out Front, Forward Asbury Park and One Asbury tickets have said their candidates are not using volunteers or paying workers to deliver messenger ballots […]

Campaign workers and volunteers have been requesting messenger ballots in record numbers this election season. But now that an affidavit is required for a person to act as messenger, the requests have dropped off almost completely. In addition, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office is now investigating the messenger ballot applications in the city, County Clerk […]