How many people are expected to vote in Bergen County? what to know

Bergen County, New Jersey’s most populous county, expects more than 500,000 residents to go to the polls on November 5.

The County Superintendent of Elections, the Board of Elections and the Clerk’s Office are the three divisions that work together to organize all elections, from voter registration, ballots and voting to worker training and ballots by mail

So how does the presidential election look?

Registered voters

During last year’s general election, Bergen County had 665,727 registered voters. That year, 203,785, or 30.6%, went to vote in November, the secretariat reported.

As of this year’s Oct. 15 deadline to register to vote, Bergen County had 685,177 registered voters. Election officials expect that 70% to 80% of those voters will vote in this election.

From October 1 to 15, 6,539 residents registered to vote in the region; last year, from October 1 to 17, 2,211 people registered, the Superintendent of Elections has reported.

Voting by mail

As of October 15, there were 93,583 requests to vote by mail. More than 4,000 of these were ballots sent to overseas and military voters.

The Bergen County Clerk’s Office sent out all mail-in ballots in September. The deadline for the clerk’s office to receive vote-by-mail applications for this election is October 29.

So far, more than 40,000 of those ballots have been delivered, the Board of Elections office said, and it expects to receive nearly 90,000 on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, there were about 4.6 million votes cast in the state, and about 4 million came through early voting and by mail.

Postal voting boxes

For those who registered to vote by mail, there are 32 secure mailbox locations throughout the county. Each night, a sheriff’s officer and a member of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party go to each location to collect ballots safely. Ballots remain closed until they are allowed to be opened and counted on Election Day.

Here are the mailbox locations:

• Bergenfield – 198 N. Washington Ave. (Borough Hall)

• Carlstadt – 500 Madison St. (Borough Hall)

• Demarest – 118 Serpentine Road (Borough Hall)

• Dumont – 180 Washington Ave. (right side of the library)

• Englewood – 2-10 North Van Brunt St. (Town Hall)

• Emerson – 1 municipal site (town hall)

• Fair Lawn – 8-01 Fair Lawn Ave. (behind Borough Hall)

• Fairview – 213 Anderson Ave. (library)

• Fort Lee – 1355 Inwood Terrace/Anderson Avenue/Circular Drive (Jack Alter Community Center)

• Franklin Lakes – 480 Dekorte Drive (Borough Hall)

• Garfield – 111 Outwater Lane (behind City Hall)

• Hackensack – One Bergen County Plaza (County Administration Building/Parking Lot)

• Hasbrouck Heights – 320 Boulevard (behind Borough Hall)

• Hillsdale – 380 Hillsdale Ave. (Borough Hall car park)

• Lodi – 1 Memorial Drive (library)

• Mahwah – 100 Ridge Road (library)

• North Arlington – 214 Ridge Road (Borough Hall)

• Norwood – 455 Broadway (Borough Hall)

• Oakland – One Municipal Plaza (Borough Hall in front of the library)

• Old Tappan – 227 Old Tappan Road (Borough Hall)

• Paramus – 1 Jockish Square (Borough Hall)

• Ramsey – 30 Wyckoff Ave. (behind the library)

• Ridgewood – 131 N. Maple Ave. (town hall)

• Ridgefield – 725 Slocum Ave. (community center)

• River Vale – 406 Rivervale Road (Borough Hall)

• Rutherford – 176 Park Ave. (Borough Hall)

• Saddle Brook – 55 Mayhill St. (municipal complex)

• Teaneck – 818 Teaneck Road (Municipal Building North Entrance)

• Washington Township – 350 Hudson Ave. (Borough Hall)

• Waldwick – 15 East Prospect St. (behind the municipal building)

• Westwood – 55 Jefferson Ave. (community center)

• Wyckoff – 340 Franklin Ave. (municipal building)

Voting places

On Election Day, 264 polling places will be open in Bergen County’s 70 municipalities.

About 3,500 poll workers were trained to work this general election, but on election day only 3,000 are expected to report to work at the polls due to unforeseen circumstances such as illness. Last year, about 2,500 election workers filed for the general election.

Of those poll workers this year, nearly 500 of them will be high school students who have been trained in recent months to help fill a shortage of poll workers.

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Bergen County NJ Voter Turnout Forecast for 2024 Election