Party affiliation and changes for sussex county tax board commissioners
Dear Sussex County Board of Elections,
Please accept this electronic request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form or use a particular software platform to submit my request per NJSA 47:1A-5(f), which states that an email from a requestor including all of the information required on the adopted form shall suffice in place of a completed form as a valid government record request.
I HAVE NOT been convicted of any indictable offense under the laws of New Jersey, any other state, or the United States.
I WILL NOT use the requested government records for a commercial purpose.
I AM NOT seeking records in connection with a legal proceeding.
Records requested:
Pursuant to OPRA, I am requesting the voter registration profiles and complete voting participation/party affiliation history records for the following individuals currently or recently serving on the Sussex County Board of Taxation: Phillip Crabb, and Howard Zatkowsky. I am specifically seeking records showing their historical political party designations, any formal Party Affiliation Declaration Forms filed by these individuals, and the dates of any changes to their party affiliation. Please redact all statutorily protected information such as signatures and driver's license numbers prior to disclosure.
My preferred delivery method for response(s) to this request is by E-mail as attachments. Please confirm you have received this request. If you are not the custodian of records, please forward my request to that person and provide their email address to me for future reference.
Yours faithfully,
Jon Sutton
Dear Mr. Sutton,
I received your 6/13/26 emailed OPRA request for the following government
records:
"Pursuant to OPRA, I am requesting the voter registration profiles and
complete voting participation/party affiliation history records for the
following individuals currently or recently serving on the Sussex County
Board of Taxation: Phillip Crabb, and Howard Zatkowsky. I am specifically
seeking records showing their historical political party designations, any
formal Party Affiliation Declaration Forms filed by these individuals, and
the dates of any changes to their party affiliation. Please redact all
statutorily protected information such as signatures and driver's license
numbers prior to disclosure."
In response, I have attached the complete voter registration profiles for
Phillip Crabb and Howard Zatkowsky, plus the voter election history, which
identifies the party affiliation for each election. There are no formal
party affiliation declaration forms attached to their voter profile, so
those documents are not available.
There are no formal party affiliation declaration forms attached to their
voter profile, so those documents are not available.
Please see: Pusterhofer v. N.J. Dep’t of Educ., GRC Complaint No. 2005-49
(July 2005): The Council determined that no unlawful denial of access
occurred because the custodian certified that no responsive records
existed and there was no evidence in the record to refute her
certification. Also please see Librizzi v. Twp. of Verona Police Dep’t,
GRC Complaint No. 2009-213 (August 2010): The Council held that the
custodian was under no obligation to create a record in response to the
complainant’s OPRA request.
Ellen Griffiths
Election Administrative Consultant
Sussex County Board of Elections
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