David Wildstein, Author at New Jersey Globe

Bergen County election error wiped Mercer voter’s registration and voting history

November 2, 2026 6:53 pmNovember 2, 2026 6:55 pm

A Mercer County voter whose registration mysteriously disappeared from New Jersey’s voter rolls was inadvertently disenfranchised when a Bergen County election official mistakenly merged his registration with another man’s, the official confirmed to the New Jersey Globe. The clerical error,...

The Howard Kupperman story, and when your running mate could be your opponent

November 2, 2026 5:55 pmNovember 2, 2026 6:01 pm

Spoiler alert: if you’re a candidate with a running mate in a tough race in tomorrow’s election, don’t read this. It could fu*k with your head. It’s entirely possible that New Jersey’s modern-day founding fathers were a little sadistic when...

Democrats enter Election Day with 403,000-vote early voting advantage, but Van Drew has sizable pool of reliable GOP voters

November 2, 2026 4:56 pm

Democrats enter Election Day with a 403,186-vote advantage over Republicans in New Jersey, a substantially larger margin than at the same point last year, although an analysis of voters who have not yet cast ballots suggests that Rep. Jeff Van...

A longtime voter’s registration has just disappeared

November 2, 2026 2:28 pmNovember 2, 2026 9:57 pm

A Mercer County man’s voter registration appears to have disappeared, but a judge has stepped in to block his disenfranchisement The man testified that he has lived in Mercer County continuously for fifteen years and voted in the 2025 general...

N.J. voter rolls grow by 21,709 in October, but Republicans add just 180 voters

November 2, 2026 1:06 pmNovember 2, 2026 1:06 pm

New Jersey added 21,709 registered voters during October, bringing the statewide total to 6,746,886, with unaffiliated voters accounting for more than two-thirds of the increase, according to the New Jersey Division of Elections. Republicans added just 180 voters statewide, barely...

Bennett family arrived in N.J. decades before the Keans

November 2, 2026 12:15 amNovember 3, 2026 11:11 am

The Kean family may be one of New Jersey’s oldest and most celebrated political dynasties, but Rebecca Bennett’s ancestors were living in the Garden State more than 60 years before the family of her opponent in Tuesday’s congressional race, Rep....

Shadaya Bennett joins Zuk’s growing lobbying firm

November 2, 2026 12:01 amNovember 2, 2026 8:54 am

Christina Zuk has brought on Shadaya Bennett, the chief of staff to Assemblywoman Shanique Speight (D-Newark), as vice president of government affairs at her Trenton lobbying firm. Bennett joins CZ Strategies with more than a decade of experience in state...