Jim Hooker Archives - New Jersey Globe

As long lines at motor vehicle offices continue, the boss takes a week off

September 4, 2020 12:51 pmSeptember 4, 2020 1:45 pm

Despite nightmarish long lines at motor vehicle agencies across the state, the agency’s head took this week off. New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission chief administrator B. Sue Fulton has been out of the office since August 31 and will return...

New computer glitch may have lost new voter registrations

June 28, 2020 12:01 amJune 27, 2020 11:28 pm

An indeterminate number of New Jerseyans expecting to vote for the first time in the upcoming primary election are being told they can’t vote because there is no record of their voter registration. In nearly all of these cases, the...

Voters who changed names on driver’s licenses getting two ballots

June 23, 2020 8:52 pmJune 24, 2020 10:03 am

Hundreds of New Jersey voters — mostly women who have changed their names – are receiving two ballots for the July 7 primary election as a result of a computer glitch involving the state Motor Vehicles Commission (MVC), the New...

Three weeks before N.J. primary, state election system keeps crashing

June 17, 2020 8:36 pmJune 18, 2020 10:23 pm

New Jersey’s Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS) is crashing frequently, terrifying county election officials attempting to meet deadlines for a statewide primary election that will be conducted almost entirely through vote-by-mail ballots. Five different election officials confirmed to the New...

Michael Bateman, an ally of Wyatt Earp, was fired from his Motor Vehicle Commission post by Gov. Murphy.

Murphy fires Earp ally from motor vehicle agency post

November 26, 2019 3:48 pmNovember 27, 2019 4:08 pm

The Murphy administration today fired an ally of Ocean County Democratic Chairman Wyatt Earp from his job running the state Motor Vehicle Commission office in Stafford Township in what could be viewed as retaliation for Ocean Democrats supporting LeRoy Jones,...