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    • Live updates for New Jersey Election Day 2024: See the latest
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    Live updates for New Jersey Election Day 2024: See the latest

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    It’s time to cast your vote New Jersey. Follow here for live coverage of the 2024 election.

    Along with the high profile United States Senate and congressional elections, we will have updates on local elections across the region, including municipal, school board and electoral measures. You need to find your polling place? Read below to see where to cast your vote.

    Check back here throughout the day for live updates from our poll reporters, including comments from candidates and voters. Don’t forget to freshen up after the polls close Tuesday night at 8 p.m. to see the results of your local races.

    Mail-in ballots must be mailed or returned in person to the voter’s county board of elections office or an authorized ballot drop box. no later than 8 p.m.. on election day, November 5. here’s how track your mail-in ballot.

    Do you want to know what it is? open or closed on election day? We have that covered too.

    The live blog continues below the photo gallery.

    A short line of voters arrived at the Hackensack Civic Center Tuesday morning.

    Michael Massey of Hackensack said he has voted in every election he “could attend” and this year his focus is on abortion, women’s rights and policing.

    “Four years ago it was chaos, it was just too much,” Massey said. “The norm should be to vote, everyone accept the results and everyone go home instead of plotting and planning how to take the election in different ways. I just came here to do my part.”

    -Amanda Wallace

    More than 1.9 million New Jerseyans cast their ballots in person or by mail during the state’s early voting period that ended Sunday.

    Registered Democrats cast the most votes during early voting, with more than 863,0000, according to an analysis of election data by Associated Press researcher Ryan Dubicki. That compares with more than 556,000 Republican votes and nearly 505,000 votes from unaffiliated voters, who are not registered with either party. That’s a record number since New Jersey. launched early voting in 2021.

    Nearly 1.2 million New Jerseyans voted in person during the nine-day period that polls were open before Election Day, between October 26 and November 3. Democrats cast 419,000 in-person votes, compared to 401,000 and 345,000 unaffiliated votes for Republicans.

    As for mail-in votes, Democrats delivered 74% of the ballots they requested, or 445,000. The Republican return rate was 72%, with 155,000, and unaffiliated voters returned 55% of absentee ballots, or 159,000.

    More than 6.7 million New Jersey residents are registered to vote.

    Do you have questions before you go to the polls on Election Day?

    Visit our NorthJersey.com guides that break down what’s on the ballot:

    • Local races: Check if your municipality or school board has a referendum question and who is running for county commissioner, sheriff, surrogate and more.
    • Congress: Who is running for New Jersey’s 12 congressional seats?
    • Senate: Which is driving the campaigns of Democrat Andy Kim and Republican Curtis Bashaw, both candidates for the seat previously held by Sen. Bob Menendez, who resigned following a federal conviction on bribery and corruption charges.

    In New Jersey, polls opened at 6 am and will be open until 8 pm on Election Day. Voters can find their voting place and answers to other questions about voting in VOTE.NJ.GOV. New Jersey residents can also call 1-877-NJ-VOTER with questions.

    Get it first: Download the NorthJersey.com news app for up-to-date election results

    He climate Election Day will be beautiful, sunny and with temperatures up to 70 degrees. A dry stretch continues on Tuesday for New Jersey, which has already been without rain for more than a month.

    In New Jersey, mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Election Day and received by the county board of elections no later than the sixth day after the polls close.

    You can still grab that mail-in ballot and drop it off, signed and sealed, in a ballot drop box near you on Tuesday. More about where at the link here.

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