Lyman Barnes Archives - New Jersey Globe

Democrats hold onto 5-2 commissioner majority in Gloucester County

November 7, 2023 10:14 pmNovember 7, 2023 10:40 pm

Gloucester Democrats have successfully defended their 5-2 majority on the County Board of Commissioners against a deeply divided Gloucester County Republican Party, dealing another blow to local GOP organization that won two seats in 2021 but then lost a bid...

Steve Sweeney keeps a close watch on Gloucester; without him, it might be a two-party county

November 1, 2021 12:01 amNovember 1, 2021 12:44 am

If Jack Ciattarelli wins Tuesday’s gubernatorial election, it will be because he was able to flip places like Gloucester County, where Democrats have managed to lock down despite demographics than might indicate some competitiveness. And if it wasn’t for Senate...

Public contractor contributions dropped to recorded low in 2020

April 6, 2021 10:53 amApril 6, 2021 11:58 am

New Jersey’s public contractors tamped down their political contributions last year, dropping their annual giving to the lowest level on record, according to preliminary data released Tuesday by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. Totaled, public contractors gave about...

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...

Gloucester re-elects Democratic freeholders

November 12, 2020 6:02 pmNovember 13, 2020 1:47 pm

Three Democratic freeholders in Gloucester County have won re-election. With 175,525 ballots counted and at most 1,240 provisional ballots left outstanding, Freeholder Lyman Barnes leads Republican challenger Nick DeSilvio by 1,856 votes, 84,203-82,347. The two other Democratic incumbents, Jim Jefferson...