7 Candidates File For Nutley Town Commissioner Election In 2024

NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley is among the Essex County towns that are holding a municipal election this year, with five seats on the township board of commissioners up for grabs in 2024.

Nutley’s local election will take place on Tuesday, May 14. See a 2024 “Guide To Voting” from the Essex County Clerk’s Office here. Candidates do not declare party affiliations in a non-partisan municipal election.

Learn more about Nutley’s form of local government here.

According to the Essex County Clerk’s Office, the following candidates have filed petitions to run this year in Nutley:

• Thomas Evans
• Alphonse Petracco
• John Kelley III
• Mauro Tucci
• Joseph Scarpelli
• Lorenzo Marchese
• Maria Hamlin

VOTE BY MAIL

The Township of Nutley recently issued a reminder for local voters who plan to cast ballots by mail. The advisory follows below:

If you are a qualified and registered voter of the State who wants to vote by mail in the Municipal Election to be held on May 14, 2024, the following applies:

You must complete the application form and send it to the Essex County Clerk (Hall of Records Room 247, 465 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Newark NJ 07102) or write or apply in person to the County Clerk where you reside to request a mail-in ballot. Instead, you may complete the application form electronically on the Secretary of State's website: nj.gov/state/elections/vote.shtml

The name, address, and signature of any person who has assisted you to complete the mail-in ballot application must be provided on the application, and you must sign and date the application.

No person may serve as an authorized messenger or bearer for more than three qualified voters in an election, but a person may serve as such for up to five qualified voters in an election if those voters are immediate family members residing in the same household as the messenger or bearer.

No person who is a candidate in the election for which the voter requests a mail-in ballot may provide any assistance in the completion of the ballot or serve as an authorized messenger or bearer.

A person who applies for a mail-in ballot must submit his or her application at least seven days before the election (deadline Tuesday, May 7, 2024), but such person may request an application in person from the County Clerk up to 3 p.m. of the day before the election.

Voters who want to vote by mail in all future elections will, after their initial request and without further action on their part, be provided with a mail-in ballot until the voter requests otherwise in writing, or beginning with the 2020 general election cycle, if the voter does not vote by mail in four consecutive years, then the voter shall no longer be furnished with a mail-in ballot for future elections and the voter shall be notified in writing of the change.

Application forms may be obtained by applying to the undersigned either in writing or by telephone, or the application form provided below may be completed and forwarded to the undersigned.

Eleni Pettas, RMC, CMC

Municipal Clerk

Township of Nutley

One Kennedy Drive

Nutley, New Jersey, 07110

(973) 284-4955

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