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FACTS ABOUT ELECTIONS

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION - February 5, 2008, Pools open 6 AM to 8 PM

SCHOOL ELECTION - April 15, 2008, contact the Municipal Clerk for polling hours

PRIMARY ELECTION - June 3, 2008, Polls open 6 AM to 8 PM

GENERAL ELECTION - November 4, 2008, Polls open 6 AM to 8 PM

POLLING DISTRICTS: Click Here

FACTS ABOUT VOTER REGISTRATION

A person may register to vote who is:

• A United States citizen.

• At least 18 years of age by Election Day.

• A New Jersey resident at least 30 days before the election.

• Not in jail, on probation or parole because of a felony conviction.

• Registered to vote at least 21 days before the election.

Voters whose registrations are received after the filing deadline will be eligible to vote in the next election.

IDENTIFICATION (ID) REQUIREMENTS

If you register to vote by mail for the first time in your county, you will have to provide some form of identification. 

If you register by mail, you will be asked by your County Commissioner of Registration to provide your driver’s license number or the last four numbers of your social security number.  The numbers are kept confidential and are not given to anyone. 

If you do not have a driver’s license number or a social security number, you can give a copy of a photo ID or a copy of a document that has your name and address on it.  Here are some examples:

A current and valid photo ID, such as:

• NJ driver’s license

• US passport

• Military or other government ID

• Student or job ID

• Store membership ID, like a Sam’s Club or Costco card

Or any document with your name and address:

• Bank statement

• Car registration

• Government check or document

• Rent receipt

• Utility bill

• Any other official document

QUICK FACT: If you walk in your Voter Registration Application to your Municipal Clerk or County Commissioner of Registration, you will not have to provide identification.

QUICK TIP: If you registered by mail after July 1, 2003 and did not provide ID before voting for the first time, you will have to show ID in order to vote in the voting machine at the polling place.  If you do not show ID, you will have to vote by Provisional Ballot. 

EVENING REGISTRATION HOURS

The Municipal Clerk’s Office

475 Valley Road

Wayne, NJ 07470

(973) 694-1800 Ext.3208

Presidential Primary Election - January 15, 2008    8:30 AM - 9:00 PM

School Election Registration - March 25, 2008        8:30 AM - 8:00 PM

Primary Election Registration - May 13, 2008          8:30 AM - 9:00 PM

General Election Registration - October 10, 2008   8:30 AM - 9:00 PM

                                                 October 14, 2008   8:30 AM - 9:00 PM

ABSENTEE VOTING (ABSENTEE  BALLOTS):

It is now the law that any voter can vote by absentee ballot for any election.
(You do not need a reason for an Absentee Ballot)

ABSENTEE BALLOT DEADLINE

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION - January 29, 2008

SCHOOL ELECTION - APRIL 8, 2008

PRIMARY ELECTION – MAY 27, 2008

GENERAL ELECTION – OCTOBER 28, 2008

ABSENTEE BALLOT APPLICATION PROCESS

To get an absentee ballot, you must fill out an application.  You can get an absentee ballot application from your Municipal Clerk or from the County Clerk’s Office.  You can also visit www.NJElections.org to download an application.

Make sure you properly fill out the Application:

• Print your name and address.

• You must Sign and Date the Application.

• A Power of Attorney signature on behalf of a voter is not acceptable.

• If You do not sign the application, it will be rejected.

• If You receive assistance in completing the application, the name, address, and signature of the assistor must be provided.

The Absentee Ballot Application must go to your County Clerk’s Office.

If you can mail it to your County Clerk it needs to get there at least 7 days before the election.

After that day, you must walk the application into the County Clerk’s Office.  Ballots can be issued by the County Clerk up until 3:00 p.m. of the day before the election.

AUTHORIZED MESSENGER APPLICATION PROCESS

Only if you are sick or confined, you can ask someone to be your Authorized Messenger to go to the County Clerk’s office to get your ballot.

• At the bottom of the application, you must write the name of the person you choose as your Authorized Messenger.

• No one can be your Authorized Messenger with your permission.

• The Authorized Messenger must be a family member (that includes any adult who is living in the same household as you) or another registered voter of your county.

• No candidate in the election in which you are requesting an absentee ballot can be an Authorized Messenger.

• You must sign the bottom of the application under the name of the Authorized Messenger.

• The Authorized Messenger must show a photo ID to the County Clerk before getting your ballot.

• Once your Authorized Messenger gets your Absentee Ballot from the County Clerk, the messenger must bring it to you.

• No one can vote your ballot but you.

• Do not allow anyone to take your unvoted ballot from you.

VOTING YOUR ABSENTEE BALLOT

• You have the right to vote your Absentee Ballot in private.

• You have the right to decide for yourself how you will vote.

• No one has the right to tell you how to vote.

• No one can demand you to tell them how you voted.

You must complete your ballot without help from someone else except:

• A family member can always help you.

• Someone who is not a family member can help you, but only if you are a sick and incapacitated voter.

• Whoever provides you assistance with your ballot, must fill out the assistor portion of the Absentee Ballot Certificate.  The Certificate is attached to the small envelope you get with the Absentee Ballot.

• A candidate can never help you with your Absentee Ballot.

Make Sure Your Absentee Ballot will be Counted

• Sign your name on the certificate or your ballot will not be counted.

• If someone assists you in completing your ballot, the assistor must sign the certificate.  If this is not done, your ballot will not be counted.

• If you are voting for the first time in a primary election, make sure you write in your party on the absentee ballot certificate.

• Don’t vote for more candidates that allowed on the ballot.  This is called an overvote.  If you overvote, the votes for that office will not be counted.

• Put your voted ballot inside the small envelope and seal it.

• Do not detach the certificate.  Leave it on the small envelope.

• Put the small envelope inside the larger envelope that is addressed to the Board of Elections and seal it.

• If both envelopes are NOT sealed, the ballot will not be counted.

• Your ballot must get to the Board office no later than the close of the polls on election day.  That is usually 8:00 p.m. on election night (9:00 p.m. for school elections).

• If the ballot does not get to the Board office by that time, it will not be counted.

Delivery of an Absentee Ballot

• You may ask someone to deliver your ballot to the Board of Elections Office or to drop it in a mailbox if you can not get it to the Board Office yourself,

• This person is called the bearer of your ballot.

• You choose who the bearer of your ballot will be, BUT – NO CANDIDATE IN THE 
  ELECTION IN WHICH YOU ARE VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT CAN BE A BEARER.

• No one can be the bearer of your ballot without your approval.

• The bearer can not take the ballot from you unless he or she first fills out, in front of you, the “bearer portion” on the envelope addressed to the Board of Election.  If this is not done, the ballot will not be counted.

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QUICK FACT: If you are permanently disabled, you can ask for an absentee ballot for all elections in a calendar year on one application. 

*** Any voter who wishes to vote only by absentee ballot for a General Election can request to receive automatically an application for General Elections.

MILITARY ABSENTEE BALLOTS

IN NEW JERSEY, MILITARY PERSONNEL AND THEIR DEPENDENTS MAY VOTE WITHOUT BEING REGISTERED.

YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE WITH A MILITARY ABSENTEE BALLOT IF:

YOU ARE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE

YOU ARE A SPOUSE OR DEPENDANT OF SOMEONE IN THE MILITARY

YOU ARE A PATIENT IN A VETERAN’S HOSPITAL

YOU ARE A CIVILIAN ATTACHED TO THE ARMED FORCES

WHEN IS THE LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR AN ABSENTEE BALLOT BY MAIL:

(7 DAYS PRIOR TO ELECTION)

VOTING BY PAPER PROVISIONAL BALLOT

You can not vote in the voting machine and must vote by Paper Provisional Ballot if:

• Your voter registration information is not complete in the poll book. For example, if your signature is missing.

• You moved from your registered address to another one in the same county and did not tell the Municipal Clerk or County Commissioner of Registration in time before the election.

• You are a first-time registrant by mail in your county after January 1, 2003 and you did not provide ID to the County Commissioner of Registration before the election or you do not show it to the board workers in the polling place on the day of the election.

Completing the Provisional Ballot:

• Complete the provisional ballot affirmation statement that is on the provisional ballot envelope.

• Sign the statement.  If you don’t, the ballot will not be counted.

• Place the voted ballot into the envelope and seal it.

• Do not detach the affirmation statement.  Keep it on the envelope.

• After you give your provisional ballot to a board worker, you must be given a piece of paper that will tell you how you can find out if your ballot was counted by the Board of Elections.

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QUICK FACT: You will have up until the close of business the second day after the election to get ID to the County Commissioner of Registration.  If you don’t, the ballot will not be counted.

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