Alleged Pinkin screw-up could invalidate Old Bridge council race
Old Bridge Councilman Mark Razzoli is challenging his 11-vote defeat in the November 2 general election, alleging that Middlesex County Clerk Nancy Pinkin put 33 voters in the wrong ward.
Democrat Jill DeCaro defeated Razzoli, 1,554 to 1,543, in the race for the Ward 4 township council seat.
But in an election contest filed on Thursday, Timothy Howes, an attorney for Razzoli, says that Pinkin didn’t follow the boundaries set in the 2011 ward redistricting map that placed voters who live on the even-numbered side of Cymbeline Drive in Ward 2 when they should have been in the Ward 4.
“With one exception, the voters on the even-numbered side of Cymbeline Drive who received vote-by-mail ballots received ballots for the Second Ward. They should have received ballot for the Fourth Ward,” Howes said in his filing. “Voters on the even-numbered side of Cymbeline Drive who voted in polling places were directed to vote in the Second Ward.”
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