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November 3rd General Election Update

Posted on: October 22, 2020 - 6:31pm

Important Information on the November 3rd 2020 General Election

As the November 3rd General Election date is rapidly approaching, here is some last minute information you may find useful.

All Ridgefield Park registered voters should have received their ballots by mail.  If you did no receive your ballot, please contact the Bergen County Clerk’s Elections Division at [email protected] or call (201) 336-7020 immediately.

The ballot consists of three pages –

  • The General Election Ballot – with candidates for President, Vice-President, Senate, House of Representatives, and Board of Chosen Freeholders
  • Three Public Questions (on reverse side of General Election Ballot)
  • On a separate sheet, the Ridgefield Park Board of Education Ballot - with Board of Education candidates (vote for 3)

Both ballot sheets must be returned in the security envelope.

The same procedure for filling out the ballot, returning in the signed security envelope, and mailing in the return envelope will be followed as we did in the May Municipal Election.
As the process for VOTE_BY_MAIL is often confusing in written instructions, please click on this LINK to see a video published in the Bergen Record on how to fill out your ballot….

There are 3 ways the your completed ballot can be returned... 

Option 1 – Complete and return your ballot by MAIL in the postage-paid envelope provided.  Ballots postmarked by November 3rd may be received by the Board of Elections by November 10th at 8 pm and still will be counted.  All ballot packages contain peel-and-seal, first-class postage-paid envelopes.

Option 2 – DROP your completed ballot at one of the 18 Secure Ballot Drop Boxes, located throughout Bergen Country.
Click on this link to view the 18 Bergen County drop-box locations…

Option 3 – BRING your completed ballot to your polling location on November 3rd by 8 pm.

For this election only all 8 voting districts will be located at the High School Gymnasium.  There will be no other polling locations open.
The voting machines at the High School will be for use exclusively for blind and disable voters who need the ADA compliant features.
Voters who choose not to complete their VOTE-BY-MAIL ballot and wish to vote in-person will be provided with a provisional (paper) ballot.  As per the Governor’s order, ADA ACCESSIBLE VOTING MACHINES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DISABLED VOTERS ONLY.

Here is a LINK to all of this information in a flyer from the Bergen County Board of Elections….