State Eases Voting Restrictions to Accommodate Storm-Battered Residents
A New Jersey governor's office directive issued Thursday makes it easier for voters to cast last-minute ballots this year.
In an effort to accommodate NJ voters affected by Hurricane Sandy, the governor's office issued a directive Thursday evening easing voting restrictions and ordering election offices to remain open through the weekend.
Per Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno's directive, the state has extended the deadline for mail-in ballot applications -- normally due no later than one week before election day -- to close of business Friday, to make voting more accessible.
Additionally, the state has ordered that county clerks and all election offices remain open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Friday, Nov. 2 until Monday, Nov. 5 to accommodate early in-person voting. By law, voters may apply for and submit in person a mail-in ballot at their county clerk's office until 3 p.m. on the day before the election.
By noon Friday, county boards of election are expected to have identified alternative sites for all polling places likely to be inaccessible on Election Day due to power outages.
"They will know by tomorrow which polling places will be open and which still have power problems," Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan said during a Thursday conference call. "There may be some towns where they combine polling places, they may be moved. But everybody will get out the operation and there will be voting."
Katie Jorgensen
10:36 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
As if it matters for us. The brainless Demoncat Obama Zombies will continue to vote in droves for their handouts. I guess we have to try and make a stand.
Mrgrumpass
10:49 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Thanks Katie your so right!
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
11:15 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
I am a "Democratic-Republican".
I am on the ballot for Congress in District Three. Len Marshall, former head of the New Jersey Conservative Party, is on the ballot in District Four. We have Freeholder Candidates in Both Ocean and Burlington Counties - Donald E. Letton and Kim Johnson in Burlington County, and Scott Neuman and Tracy M. Caprioni in Ocean County. Our Senate Candidate is Eugene M. LaVergne
In spite of gaining Access to the Ballot AND qualifying for a "COLUMN" under bracket request laws, the County Clerks in the various counties have seen fit to not only ignore their own regulations, but break the law to conceal the candidates by mixing them in with the other un-associated and un-organized independents.
Not only that, the Republican Party did not qualify for a Ballot Column in NJ after the primary, having failed to produce the required number of voters at the polls in June.
The lawsuit over the effort to block us is under Summary Judgment by the Courts right now in the FEDERAL Third Circuit. Election tampering is a Federal Crime. So is ballot tampering. Preferential placement is a violation of our Constitution...and the R's knew it - they didn't even fight in court - not even "entering an appearance" at the State Level.
Were it not for the storm, this would be the biggest story in the news - but they'll never cover it. Visit democratic-republicanparty dot org to view the filings of the State and our own.
Westfielder
3:27 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
Not enough money to run a real ad?
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
4:40 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
Elected to accept no $$ in this election.
Illegitimi non carborundum
6:05 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
I can't tell you how amused I am at your choice of verbiage. "...having failed to produce..." suggesting admonishment for (their) indifference toward the recognized legal process, and, "...not even entering an appearance," suggesting an obligation on *their* part to do so.
As for the standards you knew as younger man... I can't speak for those, but I surely hope at least one among your cohorts can rise above his standards from a younger day.
In all sincerity, I do hope you all win this fight. Good luck tomorrow.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
6:47 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
Oh, and their was no "veiled" suggestion - I am offended at the hubris of the establishment. We're right in the law - but that does not seem to matter.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
6:49 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
Have you read the briefs? If not, I would be happy to forward them to you. I would suspect from your name that you know that "rational basis", while potentially applicable in an "access" case, which THIS WAS NOT, would be insufficient in the Constitutional Issue of a Ballot Position case...at the very least, intermediate scrutiny "could" have been applied, but, again, as it is a Constitutional case - "Strict Scrutiny" should have been applied.
Illegitimi non carborundum
8:18 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
Like I said, good luck with that. And no thank you, e; I don't think any brief of yours will be very briefat all. And because what I would suspect is that your brief is all about you making a point and not a difference.
-Best
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
11:25 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
1.) "Change the Rules" Pledge (changetherulespledge.org) uses the Constitution and "separation of powers" to circumvent the "Citizens United v. Federal Board of Elections" decision by the US Supreme Court that made Influence-Peddling and "pay-to-play" politics "legal" - that's the decision that says "corporations have protected speech just like people". This unique solution can't even be interfered with by the President or the Supreme Court - and makes the Congress DIRECTLY accountable to "We, the People"....
2.) "Article the First". If there were an amendment to the Constitution that would break the two-party grid-lock in Congress, and it had been ratified for 220 years, but nobody knew about it's passage until last November, is it still the law of the land? You bet it is. That's another case that now goes to the Supreme Court, which restores control of "The People's House" to "We, the People". nationaltruth.org
Docket # 12-1171
Did I mention the Republicans failed to qualify for a ballot column, but we did?
3.) Ballot Position - we're in Federal Court on that one, too - to break the two-party duopoly that has driven us to the edge of the fiscal cliff through partisan bickering and indecision...Docket # 12-3977
We also offer real answers for Health Care and Medicare/Medicaid reform, and budget controls.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
11:25 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
We're fighting to win this election having intentionally raised no money - using only a pen, a calculator, and a library card. We're on the ballot...look for us
Illegitimi non carborundum
3:06 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
Interesting... having *intentionally raised no money*. And, ALL of your cohorts are above reproach, you say?
Yes, very interesting. Good luck with that.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
4:42 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
that's correct - we turned away donations in this campaign, choosing not to do the "yard sign" thing, and to use only word-of-mouth and the internet. Expected the courts to do more than delay/deny their own election laws - and expected journalism from the media, rather than 'blogging'. Maybe I shouldn't have expected the high standards I knew as a younger man.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
11:27 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
The clerks have us "hidden"...
In Ocean County - Scott Neuman and Tracy M. Caprioni for Freeholder
In Burlington County - Donald E. Letton and Kimberly Sue Johnson for Freeholder
Mrgrumpass
10:47 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Freddy
Give us a break, you are like my mother in-law get to the point you are too long winded and BORING! 4 times? BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB, BLAB! How can we take you seriously?
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
8:46 am on Saturday, November 3, 2012
Do you want the story, or the sound-bite? Sorry, but the solutions required need more explanation than a 30-second "elevator speech". Pick someone's bumper sticker to vote for, then, G/A. We have a platform, and a program. We adhered to the rules and the law. They didn't. The R's don't even meet the necessary standard as a "major" party in NJ...maybe in Burlington and Ocean, but it's a state-wide metric. If my accurate and detailed postings are too long winded for you, well, I'm sure the Runyan folks have a coloring book - after all, it's how they taught HIM what to say.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
8:47 am on Saturday, November 3, 2012
If you understood the censorship and ballot-tampering we've endured, you would be as offended as we are. If you aren't, then you are part of the reason we're in this mess.
Michael Rauchwerk
3:35 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
My sons are in NYC. The county confirmed that their absentee ballots were sent out on Monday, but I have not had mail delivery from Holmdel all week. I was going to drive to NYC tomorrow to let them fill out their ballots, but I don't have them and looks like they won't get to vote. I think that the deadline should be extended for these circumstances.
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