Voters’ ballots rejected in Nov. 8 election morass

BY BiLL SANserViNO

A number of voters in Robinsville Township, and maybe all of Mercer County, have been informed that their ballots were rejected in the November general election.

The report of disenfranchised voters is just the latest issue with the Nov. 8 election in Mercer County, where voters could not use voting machines at every polling place in the county as a result of a printing problem with the ballot.

Robbinsville Mayor Dave Fried said that a residents in town and throughout the county who voted at the polls on Election Day have received letters informing them that their votes had been discounted.

The letter, which came from the Mercer County Board of Elections said: “This office is in receipt of your provisional ballot for the General Election on November

8th, 2022. Unfortunately, your provisional ballot was not counted for the following reason: Voted by Machine.”

Fried said that the letters are believed to have been sent to voters who signed in at their polling station with the intention of voting on the machine, but were given a provisional ballot because the machine scanners were not processing the ballots.

He said that poll workers were See ELECTION, Page 6