Voter registration

Officials claim this step will make voting in the Empire State a whole lot easier for people, others disagree

Several groups have joined together to try and stop the Empire State from allowing early voting by mail.

New Jersey allows for online voter registration, but the deadline to register is three weeks before the date of the election.

Raises for poll workers? Yes. Early counting of mail-in votes? Maybe. Same-day voter registration? Not happening yet.

Gov. Phil Murphy hopes to enact the change in New Jersey, but opponents say same-day registration would be costly, unnecessary and complicated at the polls.

Vote-by-mail ballots have already begun being mailed, and debates begin Sept. 28. The registration deadline is Oct. 12, and early voting starts Oct. 23.

More than 322,000 would-be voters in New Jersey have registered or updated their registration since the online system debuted Sept. 2.

A Senate panel Thursday advanced two voting-related bills previously vetoed by Gov. Chris Christie expected to get a warmer reception from Gov. Phil Murphy.

More than 60 offices throughout New Jersey are keeping the lights on later than usual in order to handle any last-minute applicants.

State lawmakers are moving a pair of voting-related bills, including plans to automatically register people to vote and let some 17-year-olds cast ballots.