(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)Advocates and experts agree, New Jersey did a remarkable job rolling out paper ballots and ballot boxes on an unforgiving schedule. Now it has a ...
JEFF PILLETS
Jeff Pillets writes for NJ Spotlight News as part of Votebeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering voting issues in eight states. He has spent more than 25 years as a reporter in New Jersey and has won numerous honors. In 2008, he was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for stories in The Record exposing public corruption in a $1 billion redevelopment project in the Meadowlands.
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(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Trying to build new system on top of what currently exists would be like building a new house on structurally unsound foundation
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)No move to replace expensive system of no-bid contracts
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Other states have encountered spiraling costs, complications
illustir via Creative Commons under CC BY 2.0Candidates who don’t cozy up to local kingmakers can find themselves banished to ‘ballot Siberia,’ while favorites are awarded prominent positions
Princeton University, Office of Engineering Communications, Frank WojciechowskiPrinceton computer scientist Andrew Appel, who helped fuel laws to make voting machines safer, shrugs off misrepresentation by Trump allies
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)For the first time in over a century, election workers have paper ballots to check instead of machines
(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)NJ lawmakers push for in-person early voting by 2021. County election officials fear it’s not doable
Polls would open two weeks ahead of Election Day. Local officials urge caution, listing unclear cost, inadequate staffing, outdated equipment
As ongoing count in 7th District cuts lead over Kean, volunteers contact voters whose ballots have been rejected, urge them to fix
(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)As election neared, complaints against vendor piled up, officials said
