This request is for information from the General Election held on NOVEMBER 3, 2020.
Dear Monmouth County Clerk's Office,
This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.
Records requested:
This request is for information from the General Election held on NOVEMBER 3, 2020.
I am requesting a text, comma, or tab delimited file, or a text-based report, listing, in the
sequence processed by the county, every ballot, its sequential ID, its timestamp, its method of voting (for example: in-person, mail-in, provisional, absentee, "other", etc. – any ballots that were tabulated as part of the 2020 General Election), the specific votes contained for all races, and the batch ID and tabulator ID. Should any fields not be available, please include the fields which are.
To be clear, I am NOT requesting a summary report of votes, I am requesting a per ballot report. This set of information is sometimes known as a "Cast Vote Record" (CVR), "ballot log", or a "summary of ballots". If the data exists as multiple files or reports, for instance by batch or by precinct, you do not need to aggregate them, please send the individual files. I specifically do NOT want any information that identifies a specific voter, and I guarantee and stipulate that this information will not be used for that purpose.
Respectfully,
Mary Lou Powner
The County Clerk is responsible for posting the results of an election.
We receive the data from voting machines, which is the responsibility of
the Superintendent of Elections and paper ballots, which is the
responsibility of the Board of Elections. We are able to supply reports
on the candidates for each contest broken down by districts (precincts)
for machines and by municipalities for paper ballots.
In November 2020, the governor designated the general election as a mostly
paper election. Therefore, almost everyone voted using a mail-in ballot,
unless they were eligible to use a machine due to ADA requirements. The
data that you are requesting is not kept by the County Clerk, but rather
the County Board of Elections, which is a separate office. We have
attached the documents in our possession that are responsive to your
requests.
Stuart Siewert
Principal Programmer
Office of the Monmouth County Clerk
Market Yard – 33 Mechanic Street
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Office: 732-431-7324, ext. 7846
Fax: 732-761-9371
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