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Bergen Judge offers casters of 360 rejected ‘Naked Ballots’ a path to vote today

November 4, 2025 1:40 pmNovember 4, 2025 1:41 pm

Superior Court Judge Carol Novey Catuogno has rejected 360 mail-in ballots cast in Bergen County because they didn’t include a privacy envelope, paving the way for election officials and others to contact the affected voters today and give them a...

300 Naked Ballots in Bergen County leads to dispute

November 2, 2025 1:42 pmNovember 2, 2025 1:54 pm

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...

A woman who became a U.S. citizen last year and voted finds herself disenfranchised

October 30, 2025 6:23 pm

In voter disenfranchisement hearings involving four judges in three vicinages today, three allowed voters to cast ballots in Tuesday’s election, while another two said no. A recently naturalized U.S. citizen has lost her newly acquired right to vote after a...

Alpine councilman switches to GOP, endorses Ciattarelli

October 22, 2025 4:03 pmOctober 22, 2025 5:12 pm

Saying the Democratic Party has moved too far to the left, a councilman in a small Bergen County town has switched to the Republican Party and endorsed GOP gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli. Alpine Councilman David Kupferschmid, now the council’s sole...

Arati Kreibich, former Gottheimer foe, says she’ll run for Bergen County Clerk in 2026

September 30, 2025 4:05 pm

In a recent legal filing related to the long-running battle over New Jersey’s primary ballots, a number of plaintiffs had to certify that they do, indeed, intend on running for public office in the future and thus would be harmed...

School board member appeals legality of effort to recall him

September 16, 2025 1:03 pmSeptember 16, 2025 1:30 pm

Park Ridge school board member Robert Fisher is appealing a judge’s ruling from last week that allowed a recall effort against him to go forward despite the lack of notarized petition signatures. An effort to recall the 20-year-old Fisher garnered...

Park Ridge school board recall is back on

September 12, 2025 3:21 pm

Superior Court Judge Peter Geiger will allow a bid by Park Ridge voters to recall 20-year-old school board member Robert Fisher from office to proceed on November 4, overruling a decision by the Bergen County Clerk to invalidate petitions due...