While it looks as if all–or most–of Verona’s regular polling place will be open on Tuesday, the New Jersey Department of State has issued a directive to allow registered voters displaced by Hurricane Sandy to vote by e-mail and fax. This order also covers emergency services personnel.
To vote electronically, voters may submit a mail-in ballot application either by e-mail or fax to their county clerk. Once an application is approved, the clerk will electronically send a ballot to the voter by either fax or e-mail in accordance to the voter’s preference. Voters must return their electronic ballot – by fax or email – no later than November 6 at 8 p.m.
Voters can download a mail-in ballot application here. A list of county clerk websites, phone numbers and fax numbers are available here.
Separate directives issued today enable displaced voters and first responders to vote by provisional ballot at a polling place in a county other than the voter’s county of registration. The deadline for county clerks to receive mail-in ballots has been extended to November 19, 2012, for any ballot postmarked on or before November 5, 2012. Mail-in ballots post marked later than November 5 will not be accepted.
You can also vote early in person at county elections offices. Registered voters can obtain and cast their ballot in-person at their county elections office up until 3 p.m. Tuesday. County election offices are to remain open, at a minimum, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. throughout the weekend, until November 5. Voters that have a mail-in ballot and choose to deliver their ballot to the county elections office in person must present their completed ballot to their county elections office no later than the close of polls on Tuesday.
Information is also available by calling 1-877-NJVOTER.
