Time is running out to request a mail-in ballot for the May 19 primary, and elections officials from the region are telling people not to wait until the last minute to fill them out and return them. The deadline to apply is at 5 p.m. Tuesday – either in ...

With the deadline for mail-in ballots approaching, learn how to apply for, return and track your New Jersey mail-in ballot ahead of the 2026 primary.

In Orange County, about 175,000 ballots were mailed out to voters in 2024, with requests for this year’s midterm elections — which start with primaries on Aug. 18 — at about one-third of that. “As far as requests, we’re at about 60,000 requests for this upcoming midterm, so we have a long way to go,” said elections supervisor Karen Castor Dentel.