Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Freeholders Curley and DiMaso defeat challengers William Shea and Kevin Lavan; incumbent French best Steinhorn in county clerk bid.
The Monmouth County Republicans will retain a 5-0 majority on the Board of Chosen Freeholders. With 99 percent of districts reporting, Freeholder Director John Curley and Freeholder Serena DiMaso led their Democratic opponents William Shea and Kevin Lavan by over 25,000 votes, according to unofficial results from the Monmouth County Board of Elections. "We are gathered here tonight to make sure that what you have entrusted in us remains and creates the greatest county in the state of New Jersey," Curley said during Monmouth County Republican Committee’s election party at South Gate Manor in Freehold Tuesday night. Curley, a Middletown resident, had 134,510 votes to Shea’s 105,356. The win gives Curley a second full term on the county …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Candidates will have to wait until all of the absentee and mail-in ballots are tallied.
The group of Republicans gathered at Cafe 34 in Matawan fell silent as Assemblyman Robert Clifton (R-12) walked into the restaurant, initial election results in hand. When the polls closed at 8 p.m. in the borough, 1,585 votes were cast for Toni Angelini and 1,551 for Andrew Lopez, the Republican incumbents. Kimberly Daly and Nicholas Nellegar, the Democratic candidates seeking the two open council seats, received 1,563 and 1,500 votes, respectively. With the intial results so close and the high number of Monmouth County residents voting via absentee and mail-in ballots, the candidates will have to wait until the end of the week to know who truly won the election. Voters who chose to submit their ballot electronically have until Friday …
Voters in New Jersey on Tuesday cast their ballot for Barack Obama, giving him the state's 14 electoral votes.
Barack Obama won New Jersey’s 14 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney. In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Democratic candidate, and since the 1990s has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race 3 out of 5 times. Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in New Jersey. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections.
President Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.
Update: This article was updated at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 7 with quotes from Gov. Chris Christie. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were re-elected Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan. NBC News called the presidential election for Obama around 11:15 EST. The president sent a message on Twitter at 10:14 saying simply, "This happened because of you. Thank you." "The task of perfecting our union moves forward. It moves forward because of you," Obama told supporters in his acceptance speech shortly after 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. "It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression. The spirit that has lifted …
Republicans have conceded the senatorial seat to incumbent Robert Menendez.
As the ballots pour in from Sandy-ravaged New Jersey, Robert Menendez has emerged victorious in reclaiming his U.S. Senate seat against Republican challenger Joe Kyrillos. With just over half of polling districts reporting, state Republicans have conceded victory to Menendez. The U.S. senator leads 58 percent to 40 percent as of 10:30 p.m., according to CBS News. "Senator Joe Kyrillos ran a great campaign against very tough circumstances and despite the loss, his family, campaign team, and supporters should be very proud of their efforts," New Jersey Republican Chairman Sam Raia said in a statement late Tuesday night. "Joe represents the very best of New Jersey and has fought for his constituents faithfully from the day he took office and …
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Residents are sending multiple e-mail applications, creating an influx of requests.
Electronic voting is causing headaches at the Monmouth County Board of Elections as employees file e-mail requests for ballots. “I can’t even begin to estimate how many have come in. People are submitting the e-mail several times,” said Laura Kirkpatrick, a spokesperson for Monmouth County. After Hurricane Sandy displaced thousands of New Jersey residents, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno signed an order allowing voters to submit a mail-in ballot application by e-mail or fax. Once the request is received, Board of Elections workers have to verify that the individual is a qualified voter. Then, the registered voter receives a waiver of secrecy form along with the ballot to fill out and e-mail or fax back. In an age of instantaneous communication, some…
Power or no power, elections will go on Tuesday. Make sure you know information about your candidates, your polling location, and at the end of the day, your election results.
Elections will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 6 across the country. Make sure you are prepared to make your selections in the voting booth. Sample ballots for each municipality are attached to this article under the main photo. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Know Your Polling Place Due to power outages, there will only be two polling locations open on Tuesday. One will be at the Aberdeen Township Municipal Building at 1 Aberdeen Square and the other will be at the Aberdeen Fire Dist. No. 1 on Lloyd Road. Learn About the Board of Education Candidates New Jersey School Board Elections are normally held in April, however Senate Bill 3184, which was signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie in January, allowed school boards to combine …
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The incumbent, Robert Menendez, is well financed and heavily favored over Republican State Senator Joseph Kyrillos.
U.S. Senate candidates Robert Menendez and Joe Kyrillos agree on little when it comes to the issues. The veterans of New Jersey politics are largely pushing party-line policy as voters take to the polls on election day. Menendez, a native of Union City, has been the heavy early favorite over the state legislator. A recent Philadelphia Inquirer poll had Menendez up 50-32 over Kyrillos, in line with polls conducted by Richard Stockton College and Quinnipiac University. Kyrillos, echoing larger party sentiments, favors extending tax cuts for the "job creators" making large sums of money and also relaxing corporate taxes. It's a philosophy not shared by Menendez, who says New Jersey families have been "victimized" by corporate loopholes and …
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12:04 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders has been under total and complete Republican control for over 20 years now and unfortunately we have the highest property taxes in the entire nation___plus our County now has over $5 billion of County bond debt. more ›