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Struggling deputy attorney general fails to disenfranchise two voters

November 1, 2025 8:16 pm

After a lengthy hearing in Somerset County, Superior Court Judge Lance Kalik allowed a Somerset County couple to vote in Union County, determining that they are still in the process of moving. The two voters said they began sleeping at...

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...

Judge allows voter who changed address at motor vehicles to vote

October 26, 2025 3:37 pm

A Somerset County man was granted the right to vote after a judge found that he had intended to continue voting when he moved from Hudson County last spring and changed his address at a state Motor Vehicles Commission office....

Judge says a woman can’t vote because she didn’t change address

October 25, 2025 1:28 pmOctober 25, 2025 2:07 pm

A Somerset County woman will not get to vote in this year’s general election because she never changed her voter registration after moving from Mercer County in late May. The woman testified that she was previously registered to vote in...

DeMarco joins Donald Scarinci’s law firm

September 24, 2025 2:12 pm

Joseph DeMarco, the Somerset County Counsel, has joined Scarinci Hollenbeck as a partner. “Joe DeMarco is a Deal Maker. Make no doubt about it. Land use regulations, municipal ordinances, and politics are often central to the success of New Jersey...

Corsini to run for Somerset surrogacy after death of GOP nominee

August 26, 2025 12:36 pm

Attorney Chris Corsini will assume the Somerset GOP’s nomination for county surrogate after the death of nominee John Sweeney earlier this month, Corsini announced today. Sweeney, Peapack-Gladstone’s council president, died at 63, and county Republicans had until Aug. 28 to...

Ex-police chief gets seven years in prison for sexual assault, official misconduct

August 11, 2025 7:44 pmAugust 11, 2025 11:55 pm

Former Manville Police Chief Thomas Herbst was sentenced to seven years in state prison after his conviction on sexually assaultive and inappropriate activity, giving the embattled New Jersey’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability a rare legal victory. Jurors believed...