Woman walked into motor vehicles as a voter, left disenfranchised

[RandySF]

A woman who had been registered to vote in New Jersey for 31 years found herself disenfranchised by the Motor Vehicles Commission after she moved from Hunterdon County to Somerset County last spring, but Superior Judge today ordered that she be permitted to vote.

Superior Court Judge William G. Mennen IV noted that the woman walked into motor vehicles as a voter and left disenfranchised.

“When she went to vote, it either didn’t take effect, didn’t happen for whatever reason,” Mennen said. “The change of address didn’t follow her.”

Mennen asked a representative of the Somerset County Board of Elections about “the prevalence of issues through motor vehicles.”




https://newjerseyglobe.com/campaigns/woman-walked-into-motor-vehicles-as-a-voter-left-disenfranchised/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I'm a poll worker in NJ. The policy is that every voter has the right to vote.

In this case, the voter moved to another jurisdiction within NJ. She wouldn't be registered for the new jurisdiction and wouldn't be permitted to vote on the voting machine, but she would be permitted to complete a provisional ballot which would be sealed and locked away until it was reviewed by both a Democrat and a Republican in the county seat via The Board of Elections. If they believed that she failed to register in the new jurisdiction, they would have to determine whether to count her vote for a state candidate and void the regional/local candidates, etc.