Tahesha Way Archives - New Jersey Globe

Voting rights groups’ complaint demands electronic ballots for displaced voters

October 16, 2020 2:00 amOctober 16, 2020 9:11 am

Two voting rights groups sued New Jersey’s top election officials Wednesday, asking a Mercer County Superior Court judge to force the state to electronically transmit mail-in ballots to some voters. The complaint, filed by the state branches of the American...

Corrado wants more information on incorrectly postmarked ballots

September 29, 2020 1:06 pmSeptember 29, 2020 4:30 pm

State Sen. Kristin Corrado called for Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration to release additional information about roughly 6,500 incorrectly postmarked ballots cast in the state’s July primaries Tuesday. “I am unsure which is more troubling — the fact that this egregious...

Monmouth GOP suit seeks to reinstate postmark requirement for late-arriving ballots

September 25, 2020 4:29 pm

The Monmouth County Republican Committee sued the state Thursday, asking the courts to strike a provision allowing mail-in ballots that reach election officials in the 48 hours after polls close to be counted regardless of whether they bear a postmark....

Corrado wants Election Boards to post their vote-counting plan

September 18, 2020 6:52 pm

State Sen. Kristin Corrado (R-Totowa) wants Secretary of State Tahesha Way to make county election boards say how they plan to count ballots. In a letter sent to Way Friday, Corrado asked that election boards be required to publicly post...

Trump campaign’s amended complaint claims law codifying Murphy election order unconstitutional

September 11, 2020 6:28 pmSeptember 12, 2020 12:18 pm

President Donald Trump filed an amended suit seeking to invalidate a law codifying Gov. Phil Murphy’s order mandating a primarily vote-by-mail general election Friday, a continuation of his bid to tamp down on early voting here. The amended complaint targets...

Way warns against double voting as Trump again urges supporters to cast multiple ballots

September 4, 2020 11:49 amSeptember 4, 2020 12:28 pm

New Jersey’s secretary of state is warning voters against casting multiple ballots in the coming election after President Donald Trump urged North Carolinians to do just that. “New Jersey state law says ‘any person who votes more than once at...

Murphy signs new VBM-related laws

August 28, 2020 6:21 pmAugust 30, 2020 6:44 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy today signed a package of bills dealing with a general election conducted mostly through vote-by-mail ballots, including extra time for secure drop boxes to be available and “The Ballot Cure Act” to permit voters to correct deficiencies...