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Beleaguered election official Susan Scott leaves AG’s office for DCA post

April 9, 2026 1:02 pmApril 10, 2026 9:25 am

Susan Scott, the controversial head of the election section at the New Jersey Attorney General’s office who was partly responsible for the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters in advance of last year’s primary election, has left for a post at...

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...

Legislator wants assistant attorney general who runs elections fired

June 10, 2025 3:11 pmJune 10, 2025 4:10 pm

A North Jersey lawmaker is calling for the firing of Assistant Attorney General Susan Scott for failing to protect voters from being disenfranchised in today’s primary election. Thousands of New Jersey voters were removed from the voter rolls by election...

Several thousand N.J. voters received letters saying they can’t vote in primary

June 8, 2025 7:43 pmJune 8, 2025 11:57 pm

Thousands of New Jersey voters who visited Motor Vehicle Commission offices since April 17 have found themselves ineligible to vote in the June 10 primary election after computer mishaps led to a change in party registration without the voter knowing...

Judges were briefed by election official in advance of anticipated challenges

July 1, 2024 6:31 pmJuly 2, 2024 12:04 am

Three Superior Court judges assigned to hear Election Day challenges in Monmouth County met with a top election official two weeks before the May 15 non-partisan municipal elections to discuss claims of fraudulent voter registration in Allenhurst, Deal, and Loch...

N.J. attorney general to probe ES&S vote tabulation errors that caused some ’22 election results to be double counted

January 24, 2023 8:19 amJanuary 26, 2023 9:29 am

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin announced an investigation today into failures of Monmouth County’s voting machine vendor, Elections Systems & Software (ES&S), that led to the double counting of votes in the November 2022 general election, the New Jersey...

Counting all-VBM election votes has challenges, state attorney general says

March 26, 2020 11:53 amMarch 26, 2020 2:17 pm

The state attorney general is recommending that county election boards maintain video and audio recordings when they count vote-by-mail ballots for the May 12 elections, according to a memo obtained by the New Jersey Globe that responded to a series...