Election Day is still six weeks away, but voting is about to start in New Jersey, as county clerks are set to start sending mail-in ballots to some 900,000 voters, who can return them immediately.
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“We do know that New Jersey has seen stronger youth voter turnout and registration in recent years than we had in the past,” said Alicia D’Alessandro, a spokeswoman for New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way.Each year, the Ballot Bowl competition, which this year involves 27 colleges and universities trying to register the most voters, draws “thousands of college students who wouldn’t sign up but for their peers asking them to,” D’Alessandro added.
New Jerseyans have a number of other ways to register, including by visiting the county clerk’s office and filling out a form or usingD’Alessandro said that New Jersey’s membership in the national Electronic Registration Information Center, which should be fully implemented early next year, will also help target people who are eligible to vote but not yet registered. Many county officials and lawmakers had been calling for the state to join ERIC to help better maintain the voter rolls.
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