Additional Voting Information:
If you want to hand deliver your ballot to Town Hall, you may do that. You can deliver only your own ballot.You may not deliver any other ballots, including spouses, parents, children, or neighbors to Town Hall on election dayalthough the ballot drop boxes will be open on election day. Only your own ballot will be accepted at Town Hall. You will be required to sign a register and drop your ballot in a secure box. All of the ballots delivered to Town Hall will be taken to the Board of Elections at the close of the polls on election day and added to all of the other ballots hand delivered to other polling locations in the county. Once all of the ballots received at the Board of Elections by mail and the drop boxes located throughout the county have been counted (a process that begins on October 24), the hand delivered ballots, along with the provisional ballots cast on election day, will be counted. That counting will continue for ten days following the election.To ensure your ballot is counted,counted early, and included in early election reporting numbers, it is strongly recommended you deposit it in one of the drop boxes as soon as possible andprior to election day. Although New Jersey intends to count all ballots, those submitted on election day may not show up in election reporting numbers until two weeks after the election! Voting early will also alleviate strain on the Board of Elections by allowing them to count in advance of election day, helping to speed up final election results.
For in-person voting on election day, only voters with visual impairments that prevent them from using a paper ballot will be allowed to vote on a machine. All other voters who seek to vote in person will be required to cast a provisional ballot.
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