Casting Your Vote

If you are registered to vote and would like to vote by mail, you must complete your county’s application for vote-by-mail to receive your ballot at your current address.

The deadline to apply by mail for vote-by-mail for the gubernatorial election is Tuesday, October 28, 2025.

A voter may apply in person at their County Clerk office until Monday, November 3 at 3:00pm.

Check your local county application to verify whether postage is required when applying.

Last updated June 17, 2025.

Make sure to check your voter registration status to verify where you are currently registered to vote.

Important note for applying for vote-by-mail: If you wish for your ballot to come to an address other than the one at which you are registered, be sure to fill out Box 4 on your application.

Watch our step-by-step video on how to complete your official ballot!

Submit your ballot through the following methods by 8PM on Election Day:

1. Drop off your official ballot at your county’s designated secure drop box locations.
   • Rutgers-New Brunswick Drop boxes:
     • College Avenue Student Center (To the left of the Bus Stop)
     • County Administration Building (Drop box located in front of Bayard Street front entrance)
     • Piscataway Municipal Complex (Drop box located on walkway between municipal building and police station)
     • Westergard Library (Drop box located in front of library)
   • Rutgers-Newark Drop Boxes:
     • Newark City Hall (Green Street side)
     • Hall of Records (Front of the building)
     • Rutgers University–Newark
     • New Jersey Institute of Technology (Central Avenue Building)
   • Rutgers-Camden Drop Boxes:
     • Pantry 1 Food Mart (Corner of Chesapeake and Collings Road)
     • Virtua Emergency Department (Near the entrance of Urgent Care)
     • Camden City Hall Building (Near side entrance to County Clerk’s Office)
     • Kroc Center (Parking Lot)
2. Drop off your ballot in person at your County Board of Elections office- you must bring identification (any form of identification with name, address and signature).
3. Mail your official ballot via the postal service-all ballots must be postmarked by November 4.

If you have not received your official ballot for vote-by-mail, you could be experiencing one of the following:

1. You are not currently residing at the location you receive mail i.e. living off-campus and typically receive mail on campus
2. You have recently moved and have not updated your voter registration to reflect your new address

We recommend voters check their voter registration status and verify the correct mailing address is on file or apply for vote-by-mail if you are not currently living at the address you receive mail.

If you verified your voter registration is correct and have not received your official ballot:

1. Visit your designated polling location on Election Day and vote provisionally
2. Contact the county clerk office for the county for which you are registered to vote in and request a supplemental ballot

If you are registered to vote in a state other than New Jersey, visit the RU Voting National site for state specific resources for vote-by-mail and/or absentee voting. Depending on the state, an excuse for applying for vote-by-mail may be required. Verify your state’s voting laws in advance to ensure you can successfully cast your vote.

Voters can verify whether their official ballot was received and counted by creating an account in the New Jersey Voter Registration System.

New Jersey voters have the opportunity to vote early at an early voting site in their county. From Saturday, October 25 to Sunday, November 2,  registered New Jersey voters can vote on a voting machine at a designated early voting site in their county.

Early voting sites utilize electronic poll books allowing voters to visit any early voting site in the county in which they are registered to vote.

Early voting in New Jersey will begin on Saturday, October 25 to Sunday, November 2.

Early Voting locations are open:

Monday thru Saturday: 10:00AM to 8:00PM

Sundays: 10:00AM to 6:00PM

Find your Early Voting site here.

Be mindful that early voting sites will not be utilized on Election Day, November 4.

Middlesex County Early Voting Sites:

• Piscataway: John F. Kennedy Library, 500 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, 08854
• New Brunswick: New Brunswick Hub Teen Center, 411 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, New Brunswick 08901
• Woodbridge: Acacia Youth Center, 95 Port Reading Ave, Woodbridge 07095
• Edison: Minnie B. Veal Recreation Center, 1070 Grove Avenue, Edison
• Monroe: Monroe Township Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe, 08831
• Old Bridge: Richard Allen Cooper Civic Center, 1 Old Bridge Plaza, Old Bridge, 08857
• Perth Amboy: Alexander F. Jankowski Community Center, 1 Olive Street, Perth Amboy, 08861
• ​Sayreville: Sayreville Senior Center, 423 Main Street, Sayreville, 08872
• South Brunswick: South Brunswick Community Center, 124 New Rd, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852
• East Brunswick: East Brunswick Community Arts Center, 721 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, 08816

Essex County Early Voting Sites 

• Bloomfield Township: Watsessing Park Community Center , Bloomfield Ave & Conger Street, Bloomfield NJ
• East Orange City: East Orange City Hall-Lobby ED-7 , 44 City hall East Plaza, East Orange, NJ 07018
• Fairfield Township: Fairfield Recreation Center ED-1, 221 Hollywood Avenue, Fairfield, NJ 07004
• Irvington Township: Irvington Municipal Building, 1 Civic Square West, Irvington, NJ 07111
• Newark
  • Stephen N. Adubato Sports Complex,  Branch Brook Park & Park Avenue, Lake St, Newark, NJ 07104
  • Government Complex Parking Garage, 1 Nelson Place, Newark, NJ 07102
  • Weequahic Park Community Center, Elizabeth Avenue & Meeker Avenue, Newark, NJ 07112
  • Essex County West Side Park Community Center, 600 South 17th Street, Newark, NJ 07103
• Verona Township: Verona Community Center, 880 Bloomfield  Avenue, Verona, NJ 07044
• West Orange Township: Berson Family Center, South Mountain Recreation Complex, 560 Northfield Ave., West Orange, NJ 07052

Camden County Early Voting Sites

• Camden City: Rowan University, 129 N Broadway, Camden, NJ 08102
• Collingswood Borough: Collingswood Senior Community Center, 30 W Collings Ave., Collingswood, NJ 08108
• Gloucester Township: Camden County Elections and Archive Center, 100 University Ct., Blackwood, NJ 08012
• Cherry Hill Township: Cherry Hill Community Center, 101 Dutchtown Rd, Voorhees, NJ 08043
• Runnemede Borough: Harry Williams Community Center, 2 Broadway, Runnemede, NJ 08078
• Voorhees Township: Lion’s Lake Community Center, 101 Dutchtown Rd., Voorhees, NJ 08043
• Winslow Township: Bud Duble Senior Center, 33 Cooper Folly Rd., Atco, NJ 08004

Last updated on June 17, 2025.

No, actively registered voters cannot return their completed official ballot to their designated polling location.

Mail-in-ballots should be submitted to a designated secure dropbox location in your county, to your County Board of Elections office, or the mail by 8 PM on Election Day.

New Jersey Residents

You do not have to provide ID to vote in NJ unless you did not provide identification information when you registered or if you are a first time registrant by mail in New Jersey, and the identification information you gave could not be verified (i.e., your driver’s license number or the last four digits of your social security number). If you are not sure if any of these situations apply to you, then you should bring ID. Even if you did provide the proper identification at your registration, just to be safe, we recommend that you bring some form of identification.

Accepted forms of identification in NJ: State issued driver’s license, Military or Government ID, Student ID, Car registration, Sample Ballot, Government check or document

Provisional ballots are paper ballots that are used at the polling place on Election Day in the cases a voters eligibility cannot be confirmed at the polls.

Our Center encourages all New Jersey voters to track their provisional ballot by creating an account on the New Jersey Division of Elections website.

Learn more about Provisional Ballots!