NJ shattering records with early voting

Plenty of New Jersey voters want their voices heard, and they can't wait until Nov. 5.

It was a record-setting weekend at the polls in New Jersey, which opened early in-person voting at 10 a.m. on Saturday.

On Monday afternoon, New Jersey 101.5 listeners and readers were still reporting heavy volume at polling places.

Party breakdown of early votes

Votes won't be counted until Election Day, but we have a bit of a clue as to who's voting based on voter affiliation.

The party affiliation breakdown of those who voted early in person so far, according to an analysis by The Associated Press:

Democrats — 93,707

Republicans — 90,925

Unaffiliated — 60,874

Others — 1,497

The data also included a party-affiliation breakdown of voters who requested mail-in ballots.

Registered Democrats requested 595,182 ballots and have returned 62% of them.

Registered Republicans requested 211,823 ballots and have returned 59% of them.

Unaffiliated voters requested 283,316 ballots and have returned more than 40%.

Voters are not required to vote for the party they are affiliated with.

In 2023, New Jersey recorded 124,197 votes across nine days of early voting. The nine-day vote total was 213,919 in 2022.

This is the first presidential election year to feature early in-person voting in the Garden State.

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Early voting runs through Nov. 3. Each county has polling sites up and running — you need to vote in the county in which you are registered.

As of Sunday, nearly 600,000 New Jersey voters had submitted their vote-by-mail ballots, either in person, through the mail, or at a drop box. Vote-by-mail ballots can be accepted for up to a week after Election Day, depending on the mail's postmark.

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