Share/Save Just before 9 pm here in Jersey City, results continue to come in. In the mayoral race, with just over 20,000 votes in, Healy has 53.7 percent of the vote, with his closest challenger, Manzo, at 26.3 percent. The At-Large race is beginning to look runoff-friendly, with all three incumbents having less than 20 [...]
Share/SaveJust before 8:30 pm, the first votes — from Wards E, B and C — have started coming in. There are just more than 1,000 votes in — but right now it’s an incumbent’s game, with Fulop, Kenny and de facto incumbent Nidida Lopez out in front in those wards. Healy and his three At-Large [...]
Share/SaveAs of about 5 pm, it’s shaping up to be a pretty quiet election day here in Jersey City. This reporter spent a few hours wandering around the city asking poll workers, official challengers and paid canvassers to share their thoughts on how the day was going. 10:15 am: McNair Academic High School, three districts [...]
Share/Save- Today is election day, folks. If you don’t yet know, find out who’s running and what they stand for here. The mayoral candidates spent yesterday scurrying about the city, campaigning hard until the end — except Phil Webb, who spent the day meditating, fasting and praying. Mayoral candidates are also complaining about their signs [...]
Share/SaveThe polls are open at 6 am and will be open until 8 pm tonight. Be sure to check back with us for coverage today and tonight as the results begin to roll in. We’ll have the latest results and reaction from the campaigns. To find your polling place, click here. If you have problems [...]
If an election is a battle, the campaign headquarters is the war room. From this nerve center, strategy is planned and implemented, literature is mailed and volunteers and paid staff contact registered voters by telephone. JCI randomly visited some of the campaign headquarters, unannounced, frequently at awkward times, over the past week in Wards C, D and E. If you’ve ever wondered where the mailers and fliers filling your mailbox originate, have a look.
Share/Save- City clerk Robert Byrne says that the electronic voting machines used by Jersey City could make it easier for At-Large City Council candidates to avoid a runoff election. As long as one candidate in the field of 13 receives more than 50 percent of the vote, none of the candidates face a runoff, and [...]
Share/Save- Melissa Surach gives us her tongue-in-cheek endorsements for the municipal election. Also, she mentions an interview she did with Dan Levin that we’d really like to see. On a slightly more serious note, JournalSquared has an interview with Ward B council candidate Paul Catsandonis. He says this is going to be a series, but [...]
Share/Save- The Journal rolled out its endorsements in Jersey City’s municipal elections today. While the candidate the daily endorsed for mayor is no surprise, some of its council picks did catch us off guard. The Journal is endorsing: Lou Manzo for mayor, Andre Richardson in Ward A, Phil Kenny in Ward B, Jimmy King in [...]
In the fifth and final installment of of our series on the key issues in this mayoral election, we talk to the candidates about their plans for transportation — from jitneys to bicycles to buses — in the city.
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