Vote! Your Comprehensive Guide to the 2024 General Election!
Princeton Perspectives, Issue #56, October 16, 2024
Editor’s Note
The most engaged society is an informed society. After discovering that it can be very difficult to find details about some candidates running for office (particularly at the county level), we made it a priority to help share that information. That is why this and every October, Princeton Perspectives puts out an issue all about the elections and every major party candidate you will find on your ballot. We also help voters to gain insight into Princeton’s non-partisan election, for Board of Education. The more you know, the more engaged you can be.
In this month’s issue, Vote! Your Comprehensive Guide to the 2024 General Election! you will find details about where and how to vote, candidates’ insights as well as perspectives from a local Democrat and Republican on an issue on voter’s minds this year. We hope this will all help inform your decisions.
In This Issue
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The Pulse of Princeton: What issue is most important to you this election?
- Registered to Vote? Now Learn Who is Running for Every Seat. - At the last Presidential General Election, November 3, 2020, there were 21,631 people in Princeton registered to vote. Back then, during the height of the COVID pandemic, where 95% of votes were… Read more...
- Insight into the 2024 Board of Education Candidates - Whether you head to the polls or Vote by Mail, you will be voting for more than political candidates this November, as this General Election also includes choices for Princeton Public School’s… Read more...
- Addressing the Political Divide – A Democrat’s Perspective - We are so fortunate to live in a state where we can express our views and not be tarred and feathered. Our valued freedom of speech is still protected by the United… Read more...
- Addressing the Political Divide – A Republican’s Perspective - All voters have to feel we are listening! They must feel we are fighting for them rather than for a position or for self-gain. The negative ads, lying, and deception are out of… Read more...
Perspectives Revisited
It is voting time, and you should be prepared that the ballot you will vote on is not like those seen in the June Democratic primary. As we explained in the article Your Right to Vote 2024: Be Aware of Primary Voting and Ballot Changes (in the issue Historic Influences on the Happenings of Today, May 2024), that ballot, per court order, featured a “block ballot” design, where candidates were listed in a block under the title based on random draw. Historically, the ballots used in Mercer County have been “party-line” format, which has candidates grouped together in a common line or column. This is what you will continue to see in the upcoming General Election. Though, going forward, the ballot layout is up in the air. NJ Assembly leaders recently announced a bipartisan committee that intends to hear from the public and make a legislative decision on what format future ballots in New Jersey should have.
Plans to overhaul Trenton-Mercer Airport have been underway for many years. We detailed in the article From Trenton to Princeton, 2021 Legislation (in the issue Politics: From the White House to Princeton, February 2021), that environmental concerns were at the forefront of any overhaul plans. Last week, Mercer County took a major step in addressing them while simultaneously taking the first major step towards expansion. Leaders came together for a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) facility at Trenton-Mercer Airport. Shared with Ewing Fire Department, this $17million two-floor facility will be energy efficient with a stormwater system to reduce runoff. It is the start of what aims to become a terminal five times the current size.