SULEIMAN CALLS FOR AG’S OFFICE TO INVESTIGATE MULTI-YEAR MAIL-IN BALLOT DELIVERY FIASCO IN ATLANTIC COUNTY

“It’s truly embarrassing how incompetent the Atlantic County Clerk’s Office is at getting Vote by Mail ballots out on time,” said Suleiman. “These delays have been going on for the past four years. This gross incompetence by the Clerk’s Office, and the ballot printer, and/or the mailhouse is unacceptable. I’ve been voting by mail for years and I’m finally receiving my ballot today.”

Atlantic County government hires a ballot printer to print the physical ballots and the printer uses a  mailhouse, which is responsible for the physical delivery of the addressed and stamped ballots to the post office for delivery.

Suleiman is asking the Attorney General’s Office to investigate the Atlantic County Clerk’s Office, the ballot printer, Royal Printing Services in West New York, and the printer’s mailhouse, Universal Mailings in Piscataway, to uncover when ballots were printed, when they were dropped off to the mailhouse, and when the mailhouse actually delivered them to the United States Postal Service. It has been almost two weeks since New Jersey law required Vote by Mail to commence, but most voters in Atlantic County have either not received their mail-in ballots or are just getting their ballots today.

“Every other county can get ballots out on time so there’s no excuse for Atlantic County,” said Suleiman. “Enough is enough. We need the state to get involved here and hold people accountable. I am imploring the Attorney General’s Office to take appropriate action.”

Per state law, Vote by Mail ballots were supposed to be forwarded to voters beginning on Saturday, April 18. Nearly every other county in New Jersey has already reported completed ballots being returned except Atlantic County.

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“It’s truly embarrassing how incompetent the Atlantic County Clerk’s Office is at getting Vote by Mail ballots out on time,” said Suleiman. “These delays have been going on for the past four years. This gross incompetence by the Clerk’s Office, and the ballot printer, and/or the mailhouse is unacceptable. I’ve been voting by mail for years and I’m finally receiving my ballot today.”

Atlantic County government hires a ballot printer to print the physical ballots and the printer uses a  mailhouse, which is responsible for the physical delivery of the addressed and stamped ballots to the post office for delivery.

Suleiman is asking the Attorney General’s Office to investigate the Atlantic County Clerk’s Office, the ballot printer, Royal Printing Services in West New York, and the printer’s mailhouse, Universal Mailings in Piscataway, to uncover when ballots were printed, when they were dropped off to the mailhouse, and when the mailhouse actually delivered them to the United States Postal Service. It has been almost two weeks since New Jersey law required Vote by Mail to commence, but most voters in Atlantic County have either not received their mail-in ballots or are just getting their ballots today.

“Every other county can get ballots out on time so there’s no excuse for Atlantic County,” said Suleiman. “Enough is enough. We need the state to get involved here and hold people accountable. I am imploring the Attorney General’s Office to take appropriate action.”

Per state law, Vote by Mail ballots were supposed to be forwarded to voters beginning on Saturday, April 18. Nearly every other county in New Jersey has already reported completed ballots being returned except Atlantic County.

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