ELECTIONS: Polls closed, all Montclair voters will vote through the mail
BY JAIMIE JULIA WINTERS
winters@montclairlocal.news
Montclair's May 12 election for mayor and council will be by chain mail-in ballot only due to Jersey's State of Exigency and concerns with the spread of COVID-19.
All registered voters will constitute mailed a vote-by-mail vote and there will be nobelium personal vote at polling places for the elections.
Gov. Phil Murphy issued an Executive Order Wednesday, March 18, stating that wholly elections scheduled for May 12 will be conducted solely by mail-in ballot.
Culmination the polling places and conducting mail-in voting only wish allow the elections to go forward, but at no risk to voters and poll workers, the order reads.
"Requiring voters to report to public polling locations to vote under the current fortune will hinder public participation in the democratic process, particularly among elderly and immune-compromised voters," the enjoin reads.
Ballots will automatically be sent to every registered voters without the need for an application to undergo a voting-by-mail ballot.
All suffrage-by-mail service take envelopes will have postpaid postage ready to vouch the proper delivery of all cast suffrage-by-mail ballots.
"Our surrogate salesclerk is waiting for instructions from the county clerk's office to find out who leave mail out ballots and where they should be sent," aforementioned Montclair Communications Theatre director Katya Wowk.
The mailing of try ballots leave be abeyant.
Throughout the state, in-person vote has declined over the geezerhood, while the absolute number of voters who voted earlyish, absentee OR by post has steady multiplied, accordant to country officials.
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Source: https://www.montclairlocal.news/2020/03/19/elections-polls-closed-all-montclair-voters-will-vote-through-the-mail/