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A look ahead at May’s municipal elections

January 21, 2022 5:37 pmFebruary 1, 2022 10:14 am

It’s always election season in New Jersey. This May, voters in many of New Jersey’s biggest municipalities, as well as some of its smallest, will hold municipal elections to determine who will lead their towns for the next four years....

Post Office made a 2.9 mile trip into a 46.4 mile expedition

June 18, 2020 1:20 pmSeptember 28, 2020 3:03 pm

Contact tracing of two ballot cast in the May 12 election for city council in Paterson’s 2nd ward show two uncounted and potentially decisive votes took a circuitous to reach the Board of Elections. On Election Day, Carlos A. Gonzalez...

Voters need to drop VBM ballots in the mailbox themselves, even spouses or partners are ‘technically’ considered bearers

June 17, 2020 3:03 pmJune 17, 2020 4:11 pm

Voters who cast vote-by-mail ballots in the July 7 primary election need to physically put their ballot in the mailbox themselves or risk not having their vote count. That means a spouse or partner can’t walk to the edge of...

Post Office took weeks to deliver two ballots that could decide Paterson election

June 16, 2020 2:29 pmJune 17, 2020 8:50 am

Carlos A. Gonzalez cast his mail-in ballot for the Paterson city council election on Election Day, but his vote didn’t count because the U.S. Postal Service took three weeks to deliver his ballot. Gonzalez told the New Jersey Globe that...

Newark school boards slate drops incumbent

March 2, 2020 12:09 pmMarch 2, 2020 3:13 pm

A coalition slate that has controlled Newark school board elections of the last five years has dropped incumbent Reginald Bledsoe from their ticket and replaced him with the 23-year-old son of South Ward Democratic chairman Patrick Counsel. Hasani Council, an...

Baraka said to be picking Pennington for BA

June 25, 2018 6:19 pmJune 27, 2018 11:41 am

Newark mayor Ras Baraka is preparing to name Eric Pennington as the new city business administrator, according to two sources connected to the mayor. Pennington, a former chief judge of the Orange Municipal Court, is expected to succeed Jack Kelly,...

Baraka re-elected with massive 77%

May 9, 2018 5:49 amMay 10, 2018 12:20 pm

Newark mayor Ras Baraka won a stunning landslide victory for re-election to a second term on Tuesday, taking 77% of the vote against Central Ward councilwoman Gayle Cheneyfield Jenkins. Baraka carried all five wards by massive margins as he beat...