In-Person Voting Under Way for June Primary

County voters can vote prior to June 5 primary.

In-person voting is now underway for anyone in Morris County who will not be able to get to the polls for the June 5 primary election. The press release is below: Registered Morris County voters who will not be able to get to the polls for the June 5 primary election may vote in-person now until June 4 at the office of the Morris County Clerk. Joan Bramhall, the Morris County clerk, said in-person voting is being conducted in the County Clerk’s Office from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Thursday, May 31, with the exception of Monday, May 28, Memorial Day, when the office will be closed. Voting will also be conducted in the County Clerk’s Office on Friday, June 1, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, June 2, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.; and Monday, …

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Last Chance: Train to be a Poll Worker

Class required every 2 years to stay certified

Time is running out for poll workers to take certification training if they want to continue to work at election sites. The deadline, according to Tony Desimone, the county’s poll worker training coordinator, is June 2. Title 19 of New Jersey election law requires that all poll workers take an election training class every two years to become or remain a certified board worker, Desimone said in a statement sent to media. Desimone said veteran poll workers who took the class the first time it was offered in 2010 must take a training class by June 2 to become recertified. “It’s the law. This training is mandatory,” Desimone said. “All board workers who have not attended a class in the past two years and all first-time board workers must …

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FDU Poll: Obama's OK, Women Cool on Romney

About half approve of job president is doing

Our Republican governor gets good marks from the Garden State, but so does our Democratic president, according to the latest poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind. Barack Obama also has a solid lead over Mitt Romney in New Jersey, according to the poll — especially among women. Read the full statement from FDU below, then take our own poll to let us know what you think? According the latest poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind™, 50 percent of New Jersey voters say they approve of the way the president is handling his job, while 42 percent disapprove. These numbers mirror the support expressed by New Jerseyans for their Republican governor, Chris Christie, as reported yesterday: 56 percent approve of the job …

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Montville's Quatrone Seeks Two-Year Freeholder Term

Democrat seeks to be write-in candidate to challenge Hank Lyon for unexpired term.

VIDEO: Meet the GOP Freeholder Candidates

Chatham Township hosted the Republican's Candidates Night.

Nine of the 10 Republican candidates for Morris County freeholders gathered at the Chatham Township Municipal Building Tuesday to meet the voters and answer questions at the 2012 Candidate's Night, hosted by the Republican Club of The Chathams. Participants in Candidates Night were incumbent and Freeholder Director William Chegwidden, of Wharton; Florham Park Councilman Charles Germershausen; Morristown Councilwoman Alison Deeb; Parsippany Councilman John Cesaro; former Mount Olive Mayor David Scapicchio and former Washington Township Councilman John Krickus; Jeremy Jedynak, of Rockaway Township and former Denville Mayor Ted Hussa. Incumbent William “Hank” Lyon of Montville also attended and participated in the event. Lyon will run …

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