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Low turnout across state in May 10 municipal elections

May 19, 2022 11:50 amMay 19, 2022 11:58 am

With the exception of Ocean City and Union City, voter turnout in the May 10 non-partisan municipal elections was dismal, with more than 80% of registered voters not participating in eight of the towns that had non-partisan elections, according to...

Uddin wins Paterson city council seat

May 18, 2022 8:48 pmMay 19, 2022 9:32 am

Md Forid Uddin has won an at-large seat on the Paterson City Council after a final tally of provisional and late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots on Wednesday. Uddin, a high school teacher, defeated barber shop owner Casey Melvin by 638 votes, 4,101...

Paterson council race still too close to call

May 13, 2022 2:51 pmMay 16, 2022 1:09 am

The race for an open at-large seat on the Paterson City Council remains too close to call, with a huge number of ballots still uncounted – roughly ten times the margin between the two top candidates — and no winner...

Sayegh wins second term against fractured field in Paterson

May 10, 2022 11:25 pmMay 11, 2022 1:50 pm

The New Jersey Globe projects that Paterson Mayor André Sayegh has won re-election to a second term, beating Councilman Alex Mendez and three other candidates for the chance to lead New Jersey’s third-largest city. [Numbers] The contest between Sayegh and...

The polls are open in New Jersey

May 10, 2022 6:00 amMay 10, 2022 7:31 am

Good morning, New Jersey. It’s Election Day and the polls are now open in eleven municipalities across the state that are holding non-partisan municipal elections. The most closely-watched races are in Bayonne and Paterson, where incumbent mayors are seeing re-election....

An early look at VBM return rates in some N.J. towns with local elections next week

May 6, 2022 1:19 pm

Voters in some North Jersey municipalities with hotly contested non-partisan local races on Tuesday are slow to return vote-by-mail ballots, but the total numbers in some places are surprisingly good, considering the traditionally low voter turnout in May elections. In...

Passaic GOP wins in appellate court, moving Maher’s sheriff candidacy forward

April 28, 2022 9:51 am

A state appellate court will allow Passaic County Republicans to replace their candidate for sheriff on the June 7 primary ballot but told the county clerk that she can hold off printing ballots until tomorrow to allow Democrat to file...