How to Vote in the US Midterms in New Jersey: You Missed Early Voting — Here Is How You Can Still Vote Tuesday
Early voting closed Sunday night, and the top search in America this morning is how to vote. In New Jersey the answer is still simple: one Monday deadline for a mail ballot, then your regular polling place, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The most-searched question in the United States this morning is how to vote in the midterms — and in New Jersey, a large share of the people asking it are asking because they missed the early window. The state's nine days of in-person early voting ended Sunday at 6 p.m. That door is closed. Two others are still open, and one of them closes Monday afternoon.
The Monday door is the mail ballot. A registered voter who would rather vote by mail can still apply in person at the county clerk's office until 3 p.m. on Monday, November 2. A completed mail ballot can then be deposited in an official ballot drop box or delivered to the county Board of Elections by 8 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday — but it cannot be handed in at a regular polling place, the one mistake that voids the errand.
The Tuesday door is the familiar one: your regular polling place, the one printed on the sample ballot mailed to your home, open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on November 3, for the U.S. Senate race, all 12 U.S. House seats and the county and municipal offices on your ballot. If you are in line at 8 p.m., you vote. Missing early voting changed the plan for thousands of New Jersey voters this weekend; it did not change their right to cast the same ballot on Tuesday.
