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2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

Callaway gets two years in jail for ballot fraud scheme

July 23, 2025 4:10 pmJuly 24, 2025 8:45 am

Former Atlantic City Council President Craig Callaway was sentenced to two years in prison for setting up a fraudulent scheme to illegally harvest and cast vote-by-mail ballots in the 2022 general election. Federal prosecutors allege that Callaway and others working...

The Watcher: Internal polls in the governor’s race, and Essex County gets to vote for Pope

April 23, 2025 6:03 amSeptember 4, 2025 5:14 pm

Internal polls can drive people bonkers, not that there’s anything wrong with that. An internal poll conducted for Ras Baraka’s campaign last week shows some tightening in the race for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey: Mikie Sherrill...

Grant retiring as state court director, Blee named as successor

January 22, 2025 12:16 pmJanuary 22, 2025 3:51 pm

Glenn A. Grant, the controversial acting director of the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts, is stepping down and will be replaced by Atlantic County Assignment Judge Michael Blee. “These past sixteen years as administrative director have been the...

Suleiman wants state election monitors to watch Callaway

October 22, 2024 10:44 pm

Eight months after the Justice Department announced it was prosecuting veteran ballot harvester Craig Callaway with election fraud, Atlantic County’s top Democrat wants the state Office of Public Integrity and Accountability to dispatch election monitors to Atlantic City. In a...

Salerno lead in NJ-2 primary now at 397

June 6, 2024 1:29 pmJune 6, 2024 4:49 pm

The race for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd district has tightened since Tuesday night, with Joseph Salerno’s margin over Tim Alexander dropping from 441 to 397 after election officials determined that some machines used in in-person...

Judge sends Jersey Freedom probe to ELEC

March 18, 2024 2:47 pmMarch 18, 2024 10:59 pm

Jersey Freedom, the shadowy super PAC that spent money supporting phantom candidate Giuseppe Costanzo in a competitive South Jersey State Senate race last year, will be under the purview of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. Superior Court Judge...