Michael O'Neill Archives - New Jersey Globe

Adults voting from parents home could determine outcome of Hunterdon school referendum

June 1, 2022 2:45 pmJune 1, 2022 4:18 pm

How long can an adult out of college and living on their own still keep voting from a parent’s home? That’s a question Superior Court Judge Michael O’Neill must decide in a court challenge to a $33.4 million South Hunterdon...

After 73 years of voting, West Amwell woman’s final ballot is invalidated

May 27, 2022 2:24 pm

A Superior Court Judge in New Jersey today posthumously disenfranchised a 93-year-old great-grandmother whose final vote, cast in November 2021, just a month before she died, because her signature on a vote-by-mail ballot didn’t match others on file. Julia S....

Trial starts in challenge to Hunterdon school bond referendum

May 12, 2022 5:18 pm

A challenge to a $33.4 million South Hunterdon Regional School bond referendum vote last November went to trial on Thursday, with attorneys trying to attorneys sparring over individual votes cast in a contest that was passed by just two votes....

Hunterdon school referendum’s passage holds after recount

December 14, 2021 3:18 pmDecember 15, 2021 8:38 am

Following a recount today, the victory of a bond issue referendum in the South Hunterdon Regional School District was upheld, with 1,773 votes in favor and 1,771 votes against. According to a letter sent by the Hunterdon County Board of...

Recount goes forward in Hunterdon school referendum

December 10, 2021 11:34 am

Superior Court Judge Michael F. O’Neill today ordered that a school district referendum held last month in Hunterdon County go to a recount, with the recount date set for December 14. The South Hunterdon Regional School District, which comprises Lambertville,...

McCormick, Devine face more legal issues after Judge orders court appearance next week

May 26, 2021 11:13 am

Superior Court Judge Michael O’Neill has ordered shadowy perennial candidate Lisa McCormick and her controversial life partner, James Devine, to appear in court next week as their landlord seeks to evict the Covid squatters from rooms they had been renting...

Murphy appears at odds with Grewal’s ‘naked ballot’ cure stance

November 9, 2020 3:36 pmNovember 9, 2020 5:23 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy appeared to disagree with state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s office arguing against cures for “naked ballots” that a Hunterdon County Superior Court Judge allowed last week. “One guy’s opinion — I’m not trying to be argumentative, certainly,...