Judge refuses to disenfranchise voter who switched parties by mistake at MVC
A Roselle man who went to the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission office to get a Real ID as a Democrat on April 17 and wound up leaving as an unaffiliated voter will get to cast his ballot in the Democratic primary after Superior Court Judge John Deitch signed an order allowing him to vote.
This was the fourth time this week that a voter was forced to appear before a judge to avoid being disenfranchised as a result of an interaction with the MVC, also commonly referred to as the DMV.
The man, whose name is being withheld by the New Jersey Globe to protect his privacy, acknowledged that he accidentally changed his voter affiliation by checking off the wrong box on a keypad at the MVC counter on April 17, one day after the deadline to switch parties.
“I was in DMV for several hours in line, going around and around and around, and I rushed through it. I’ve been voting Democrat my whole life, and I wanted to get out of there. There was this person coughing. I did not look at it properly. So that was on me,” the voter told Deitch. “It’s partly my fault — you mark off, ‘do you want be an organ donor?’ and I rushed through it, I really did … But I would like to be able to vote in this coming election.”
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