PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Gov. Phil Murphy hinted that with the coronavirus spreading in New Jersey, he was looking at tightening restrictions. But the governor did not get specific.
As New Jersey's COVID-19 case counts rise, Murphy said a tighter lockdown is coming sooner rather than later.
"How close are we to doing something? Close. So bear with us. We will clearly be taking action," he said.
New Jersey reported 2,104 new coronavirus cases in the last day, with eight counties including Camden County reporting more than 100 new cases each.
Murphy did not get specific about what restrictions the state may impose to slow the spread of the virus.
"We're deploying testing, tracing, enforcement, the whole shooting match. We're looking at a number of different steps that we're going to take," he said.
On the top of Election Day voting, the governor also said there were few glitches, and he'd like to see the state establish early in-person voting.
"I personally want to get back to machine voting but we need an investment. An electronic roll book is what folks call it colloquially. That would allow us to have side-by-side mail-in ballots, in person, early voting and same day Election Day voting," he explained.
He said that "electronic roll book" system would likely cost between $20 million and $30 million to establish.
