UPDATED: 2:15 p.m.
Aside from the presidential race, tops on the partisan ballot are nominating candidates for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Cory Booker.
His lone opponent is civil rights advocate Lawrence Hamm.
Five Republicans are on the ballot: Camden County educator Natalie Rivera, Atlantic City engineer Hirsh Singh, retired public school teacher Eugene Anagnos, entrepreneur Rik Mehta and biochemist Patricia Flanagan.
All 12 congressional seats are up.
In the South Jersey region, there is no race for nominations in the 1st District now represented by Democrat Don Norcross. In the 3rd District, freshman Democrat Andy Kim faces no party opposition. Republicans Kate Gibbs and David Richter seek their party’s nomination.
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The most prominent local congressional contest is in the 2nd District in deep South Jersey and down the shore, where freshman Democrat-turned-Republican Jeff Van Drew is opposed by Bob Patterson.
Five Democrats want their party’s nod: political scientist Brigid Harrison, educator Amy Kennedy, West Cape May Councilman John Francis, former Booker staffer Will Cunningham and former FBI agent Robert Turkavage.
As for actually voting, since this election is almost completely being conducted by mail, you should have already sent yours in.
If you haven’t, it will count if it’s postmarked today or dropped off at designated locations within your home county.
Sophia Reyes from Cherry decided to cast her ballot in person.
“It's what I'm used to doing,” she said. “The location was changed, though, due to COVID, I believe. Because the other space is a clinic.”
Inside her polling place at St. Thomas Greek Orthodox Church, everyone wore masks, and ballots were cast by paper, not a machine.
One election worker said some people brought their mail-in ballots to the polling place — and they were then directed to take them to a county dropbox.
As for Reyes, she got something mail-in voters didn't: “It just feels better to come in and vote and get my sticker so I can put it on social media and kind of incentivize my friends, like, 'Hey, I did it. You need to do it too.' ”
Here is a partial list of local drop-off locations:
In Camden County:
The municipal building in Audubon at 606 West Nicholson Road
The municipal building in Waterford Works at 201 Grant Avenue in Chesilhurst
The Camden County administration building in Camden at 600 Market Street
The Rohrer building at Camden County College on Route 70 and Springfield Road in Cherry Hill
The municipal building in Gloucester Township at 1261 Chews Landing Road
The Camden County Board of Elections at 100 University Court in Blackwood
In Burlington County:
The Burlington County Board of Elections at 50 Rancocas Road in Mount Holly
The Pemberton Community Library at 16 Broadway Street in Browns Mills
The Medford Township Public Safety building at 91 Union Street
The Cinnaminson Township municipal building at 1621 Riverton Road
The Mount Laurel municipal building at 100 Mount Laurel Road
The Mansfield Township municipal building at 3135 Route 206 South in Columbus
In Gloucester County:
The County Complex in Clayton at 1200 N. Delsea Drive
The Mantua municipal building at 401 Main Street
The Monroe municipal building at 125 Virginia Avenue in Williamstown
The Gloucester County Office of Elections at 550 Grove Road in West Deptford
The Woolwich municipal building at 120 Village Green Drive in Swedesboro
You may also vote in person, but polling places are limited in many locations to one per town. Polls close at 8 p.m.
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