Judges consider emergent voter applications

A student at the County College of Morris can vote today after Superior Court Judge Louis Barbato found that she took the proper steps to register by the October 13 deadline.

The woman said she registered at a campus voter registration drive on October 4, but the Morris County Board of Elections didn’t process the registration until October 19.  It’s unclear why it took about two weeks to add her to the rolls.

Atlantic County Assignment Judge Susan Sheppard approved a request from a voter who is in a convalescent facility to receive a vote-by-mail ballot.  The voter said her pastor would deliver it.

A man from Gloucester County recently moved from Atlantic County and will be allowed to vote in his new hometown after Superior Court Judge Timothy Chell permitted his address change.   Chell also allowed a former Camden County voter to cast a ballot from his new hometown in Gloucester County, and a third voter can participate today after a judge found that the individual had attempted to register.

Superior Court Judge Sherwin Campbell approved an application by a Somerset County man who had recently moved back to Somerset after living in Burlington County for a few years.

In two separate matters in Bergen County, Superior Court Judges Peter Geiger and Kevin Kelly rejected bids from two men who acknowledged they made no effort to register by the statutory deadline.

Superior Court Judge Jodi Bouer allowed a Mercer County woman who moved to New Jersey in March and believed to have registered to vote during a visit to the Motor Vehicle Commission in May, to vote today.

Geiger refused to allow a Bergen County man who is listed as a registered voter in Passaic County but moved to Bergen in 2021 to vote.  Kelly would not permit a recent college graduate who was registered in Mercer County to vote in  Bergen, where she resided her entire life.

In Union County, Superior Court Judge John Hudak refused to disenfranchise an 18-year-old man who registered to vote at the Motor Vehicles Commission when he was 17 and again at a voter registration drive at his high school; still, his name did not appear on the voter rolls.

Superior Court Judge Linda Grasso Jones permitted the spouse of a Monmouth County voter to pick up a messenger ballot.   In Gloucester County, Judge Mary Beth Kramer did the same.

Superior Court Judge Thomas Stanton Fennelly allowed a Morris County woman to vote after believing her testimony that she sought to register to vote in advance of the 21-day deadline.

Sheppard approved a messenger ballot for an elderly woman who was in a health care facity today

Editor’s note: The New Jersey Globe withholds the names of voters who appear before judges in opposition to their own disenfranchisement in order to protect the privacy of the vote.