Saturday, November 5, 2022
VOTING
(Continued from Page 2) the Tabernacle EMS Building and a large electronic message sign outside the building. Messages were also posted on the county’s social media pages that alerted voters of all proper early voting locations. “While the Clerk’s Office regrets the error, the feedback received is that the signs and messaging have worked to ensure all county voters interested in casting ballots early are able to do so at the proper locations.” He did not address just how many sample ballots were mailed to county voters containing the error. This is the third time in recent years that there has been an error involving county ballots. In 2016, when the County Clerk’s Office and Burlington County Board of Elections was still controlled by Republicans, a missing barcode on mail-in ballots had delayed the release of the final count of votes in a General Election for a couple days. Officials had only discovered the lack of a barcode when they attempted to run mail-in ballots through a machine on the morning of Election Day. They were ultimately forced to count the mail-in ballots by hand. Then, in 2019, shortly after Schwartz took office, erroneous mail-in ballots were sent to both Southampton Republican voters and unaffiliated Southampton voters in a primary, with Daniel L. James (the current mayor of Washington Township) appearing as the Republican candidate for Southampton Township Committee, when instead, they should have listed Michael Mikulski (the current mayor of Southampton). Some 451 voters i n Southampton, following this newspaper’s reporting, ended up being sent corrected ballots. Levinsky was asked by this newspaper, for this story, whether Schwartz and Addiego are supposed to review, or did review, the sample ballots that were disseminated to county voters ahead of this year’s Midterm Elections. That question was not specifically addressed, nor one that asked if any action involving personnel has since been taken as a result of the latest error.
MIDTERM
(Continued from Page 10) spoken to while on the campaign trail are having to make decisions about whether to buy “gasoline or groceries.” “Access to healthy foods is important, but one of the ways we can get there is to start to address some of the spending we’ve got, the energy policies we’ve got, which has been to beg other countries for oil than to talk about the domestic production we have here, and to also start lowering inflation,” Healey said. “I would hope the president starts to look at that in his program.” Kim maintained in response to the questions “this is one of the biggest issues I’ve worked on,” recounting a meeting he had early on in his first term in which he learned that some 60,000 people in his district are considered “food insecure,” or what is a “bureaucratic way of saying they are hungry.” Of those 60,000 people, some 17,000 individuals are estimated to be kids. “That just really broke my heart to understand how dire it was,” said Kim, noting those were the statistics before the pandemic. The congressman expressed his optimism that this can be a “win-win” in which “we can provide a great abundance of healthy food for kids” while also “supporting our agriculture.” “We can renew what it means to be the ‘Garden State,’ while tackling this issue of hunger,” Kim declared.
AD HOTLINE: (609) 801-2392 or SALES@ PINEBARRENSTRIBUNE.COM Early voting, according to a sample ballot obtained by this newspaper, runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Nov. 5, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Nov. 6, after having commenced Oct. 29. The county also maintains some 28 mail-in ballot drop box locations. Levinsky was asked by this newspaper why a drop box does not exist in a convenient location for Woodland, Bass River and Washington residents, or in the southeastern tip of the county, but did not specifically address that query either. But Levinsky, a couple days earlier, on Oct. 20, had sent along a press release in which Addiego was quoted as saying, “Voting is one of the most important rights we possess and is fundamentally important to our democracy.” “Our elections systems are secure with numerous safeguards in place, but we are offering a few tips that can help voters,” she added. In addition to reminding voters to “make sure your registration information is updated” and to “make sure to sign your Vote-by-mail ballot (VBM) certification,” the release called on county voters to “go to the proper polling location.” In making that latter point, it was emphasized that Burlington County voters can vote with a machine “at any of seven early voting sites” in the county during the early voting period of Oct. 29 to Nov. 6, and that “voters who were sent a VBM ballot will not be permitted to vote with a machine at any of the county’s seven early voting sites or at their regular polling sites on Election Day.” “These voters will still be allowed to vote with a paper provisional ballot,” it was added. On Election Day, the release continued, voters should go to their regular polling location to cast their ballot with a machine. To find your Election Day polling site, residents are asked to go to https://voter. svrs.nj.gov/polling-place-search . “Voters who show up at the wrong polling location on Election Day will be directed to the proper location or will be given a paper provisional ballot,” the release stated. Residents with questions about the election and voting process can call the Burlington County Elections hotline at 609-265-VOTE.
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When asked about a controversy involving Hindus and Muslims that is a more prevalent issue in the Central Jersey portion of the district, Kim noted he is “always concerned about the challenges of diversity living in a heterogenous country.” People should recognize, he said, that “we are part of that same community” and that “we all come from different backgrounds,” pointing out that he is the first New Jersey representative in Congress that is “API,” or an Asian and Pacific Islander. “I do get very frustrated at times by some of the divisions that are being erected,” Kim asserted. Hate and division, “especially that of which is fomented from other parts of the world,” should not be allowed to “affect us,” the congressman emphasized. The question asked by the moderator is one that Healey called “especially pertinent” to him, after having recently traveled to India. Healey pointed out the “largest Hindu temple” is located in the Third District (in Robbinsville), with other such communities located elsewhere in Monmouth County, and the people he met “were open, welcoming and want their places of worship to be open to all people.” “We should take a page out of that book,” Healey declared. “This country should be open to anyone, of any faith.” He added that “whether you are an Indian American or an Italian American – we are all Americans.”
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responded that reaching out to 100 percent of a target group is “always difficult,” and in the case of veterans, may be made more so if they’re renters, since homeowner tax deductions is one method used to identify them. But if there’s any qualified individual who didn’t know about the campaign, he said, “we welcome them, and we’ll do anything to work with them and make sure they get an invitation to participate.” The township manager added that he had even “hand delivered an application to a World War II veteran.” W h i le not di re ctly addressi ng the controversy precipitated by the veterans wall unveiling, Veasy emailed this newspaper a statement, via township Communications
Director Zane Clark, wh ich praised the Disabilities and Veterans Advisory Committee for having “always gone to incredible efforts to honor and advocate for Evesham’s veterans.” “I will always be proud to support our local veterans and all of the committee’s work that helps our local vets, including the new Veterans Wall of Honor,” the mayor’s statement read. “As the project keeps expanding in the weeks, months and years ahead, the wall will serve as a permanent expression of our gratitude for our veterans.” DiEnna, for his part, said that while there are many veterans who are unhappy at the way this program was administered, he hadn’t spoken with anyone who was unhappy with the program itself. The main problem with it, he contended, was that “it was not thought through.”
