It's Election Day. Time to return that ballot.

It's Election Day. Polls in New Jersey are open from 6 am to 8 pm but not for voting as usual. 

General Election 2020 in New Jersey has been mostly by mail on order of Governor Phil Murphy, as one of his steps in battling the COVID-19 pandemic that has ravaged the state since winter. The polls will be open for several purposes: as drop-off sites for mail-in ballots that could not be mailed in time, to provide provisional ballots for voters who for whatever reason did not receive their ballots in the mail, and to accommodate voters with disabilities. Voting machines will be available only for disabled voters.  

Mail-in ballots must be returned by 8 p.m. If you have a mail-in ballot but haven't mailed it in, the Monmouth County Clerk's Office recommends doing one of the following:

- Bringing the ballot to the County Board of Elections, 300 Halls Mill Road, Freehold.

- Bringing the ballot to one of the official drop boxes posted in your municipality. The drop box in Asbury Park is at the City Council Chambers in City Hall; use the Bangs Avenue entrance. The Neptune Township drop box is at the library entrance to the Neptune Township Municipal Building, 25 Neptune Blvd. 

- Bringing the ballot to your assigned polling location.

Click here for a list of polling places.