Mercer County had to send two additional shipments of provisional ballots to the voting district on the University’s main campus on Tuesday, an indirect result of Hurricane Sandy's devastation to the state last week.
The county had initially supplied the poll for Princeton’s 7th District, which is located in the lobby of Icahn Laboratory, with 50 provisional ballots. At 5:30 p.m., the county shipped an additional 100 provisional ballots to the polling station after learning that it had run out.
During that delivery, poll workers requested another shipment just in case. At 6 p.m., a shipment of 125 additional ballots was on its way.
“We’ve been replenishing them constantly,” County Clerk Paula Sollami-Covello said. “We’re not going to let them run out."
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which displaced thousands of New Jersey residents, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno announced that anyone displaced by the storm would be allowed to cast a provisional ballot at any polling station in the state.
Most polling locations were provided with 30 provisional ballots, but Sollami-Covello said the county provided college districts such as Princeton’s 7th District — which includes all undergraduate dormitory residences — with 50. This is necessary because many college students who are registered to vote in their home district think they are registered in their college district, Sollami-Covello said.
The county also had to make two additional shipments of provisional ballots to the district that includes The College of New Jersey.
The increase in demand for provisional ballots was not a direct result of Hurricane Sandy, Sollami-Covello said. Instead, she said the availability of provisional ballots was better publicized this year as a result of the governor’s directive. This encouraged college students registered in their home districts to cast a provisional ballot at their college district’s polling station.
“The college students are saying, ‘Oh, we can go vote, let’s do it,’” Sollami-Covello said.
Boards of Election that receive a provisional ballot from a voter registered in another county must deliver the ballot to the voter’s county of registration by overnight mail or hand delivery, according to a directive issued to county election officials by the New Jersey Department of State on Saturday afternoon obtained by The Daily Princetonian.
Voters using provisional ballots can only vote for president, senator and statewide ballot initiatives.
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