Benjamin Telsey Archives - New Jersey Globe

Supreme Court reprimands judge who failed to purchase liability insurance, maintain proper accounts

March 11, 2021 4:31 pm

The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a public reprimand to a Vineland municipal court judge who admitted to failing purchase liability insurance and to properly maintain accounts holding funds on behalf of clients. Between Oct. 17, 2017, and March 29,...

Judge grants recounts in Woolwich, Harrison, but no new count for freeholder race

December 11, 2020 12:07 pmDecember 11, 2020 12:08 pm

A Superior Court Judge approved Republican requests for recounts in two Gloucester County municipalities but denied a request for the same in freeholder races there Friday morning. At the end of a hearing that ran for nearly two hours, Cumberland/Gloucester/Salem...

Machine counts of mail-in ballots not 100% accurate, but close, audit shows

December 8, 2020 3:22 pmDecember 9, 2020 8:58 am

Machine vote counts of vote-by-mail ballots were slightly less than 100% accurate in each of 14 randomly selected ballot bins in Gloucester County, but 47 uncounted ballots were discovered during a state audit of a little less than 5% of...

Another hearing on Gloucester recounts set for Dec. 11

November 24, 2020 5:30 pm

A Superior Court Judge said he wanted more information about purported ballot-counting inaccuracies before approving recount requests in four Gloucester County races. Republican candidates in three local races and one GOP freeholder candidate filed for recounts after final tallies showed...