Voting In Long Branch-Eatontown: Everything You Need To Know

LONG BRANCH, NJ — Election Day 2020 is here! You cannot machine vote at the polls on Nov. 3 unless you have a documented disability.

Even if you go to your regular polling place to vote, you will only be able to vote via a provisional ballot (paper ballot) and they count provisional ballots last, after all the mail-in and machine votes have been counted. County clerks across New Jersey have said the best way to vote is drop your sealed ballot in a ballot drop box — Don't forget to sign it. Drop your ballot by 8 p.m. Tuesday at these two secure ballot boxes:

• Eatontown Borough Municipal Building 47 Broad Street Eatontown, NJ 07724 Back entrance
• Long Branch City Hall 344 Broadway Long Branch, NJ 07740

Ballot drop boxes are collected and returned directly to the Monmouth County Board of Elections office. These ballots are only handled by designated Board of Elections representatives.

If you are mailing it, you must put the ballot in the mail today so it is postmarked Nov. 3.

Eatontown: Two Council seats are open; four candidates running:

• Mark Regan, Jr., Republican, running to keep his seat
• Jim Corcoran, Republican, running to keep his seat
• Danielle Jones, Democrat
• Marielle Hufnagle, Democrat

Long Branch BOE: There are three seats open and five candidates.

• Tasha Youngblood Brown, Lucille Perez and Armand Zambrano are running for re-election as a team
• Joseph M. Ferraina is running. As the Asbury Park Press reported, Ferraina is the former Long Branch superintendent of schools accused of keeping his secretary as a "sex slave." She filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him and the district, and the Long Branch school district settled with her for $600,000.
• Kristopher Soto is running

In addition to the presidential race, voters in New Jersey will be asked statewide questions such as whether New Jersey voters want to legalize marijuana and whether to make peacetime veterans eligible to receive the veterans' property tax deduction. For more on marijuana legalization, click here.

Presidential race: Residents can either cast a write-in vote or choose, among the major parties, between Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, or Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden and US Sen. Kamala Harris. Also running are: Don Blankenship/William Mohr (Constitution Party); Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker (Green); Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (Libertarian); Gloria La Riva/Sunil Freeman (Party for Socialism and Liberation); Roque De La Fuente/Darcy Richardson (The Alliance Party) and Bill Hammons/Eric Bodenstab (Unity Party).

Congress: One U.S. Senate seat is up for vote: Incumbent Democrat Cory Booker will face Republican Rik Mehta.

The area's two longtime Congress reps are also running for re-election: Republican Rep. Chris Smith is being challenged by Democrat Stephanie Schmid, and Democrat Rep. Frank Pallone (he represents Long Branch) is being challenged by Republican Christian Onuoha.

• Track my mail-in ballot.
• Where can I vote in person?
• Mailing back your ballot? Postmarked by deadline: Nov. 3
• Received by deadline: Nov. 10

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