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Assembly considers absentee-voting ordinance to require ballots received by election day, add witness contact details
Summary
Clerk Chi Huang and elections staff briefed the assembly on a proposed ordinance to change absentee-ballot rules: require ballots to be received by election day (rather than within seven days after), print witness names and contact information on ballots, and align electronic-absentee procedures with current practice.
Chi Huang, Borough Clerk and elections administrator, presented proposed amendments to Title 5 on absentee voting at the June 25 assembly work session and answered assembly questions about operational impacts.
Huang said the ordinance would standardize current procedures and make specific changes requested by election staff: require printed names (rather than handwritten signatures) on voter-facing envelopes, include contact information for witnesses, and…
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