300 Naked Ballots in Bergen County leads to dispute

About 300 voters in Bergen County are at risk of their votes not being counted because they didn’t place their ballot inside an inner envelope before returning it to county election officials, the New Jersey Globe has learned.

These are commonly known as Naked Ballots: voters place the ballot in the outer envelope, which has a pre-printed address of the Board of Elections, rather than putting it in an inner secrecy envelope.

One option to prevent disenfranchisement is to notify the affected voters, who would have the option of visiting their polling location today or on Tuesday and casting a provisional ballot.

A vote by the Bergen County Board of Elections to notify a handful of voters who returned primary ballots in the general election envelope was deadlocked, 3-3, along party lines. Democrats want to tell the voters; Republicans opposed it. No action has been taken on the 300 ballots.


https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/300-naked-ballots-in-bergen-county-leads-to-dispute/