In re Thirteen Ballots Cast in the 1985 General Election

HAINES, A.J.S.C. and Van SCIVER, J.S.C.

We are the judges assigned to resolve problems and conduct hearings relating to the 1985 general election in Burlington County. State and local candidates, but no national candidates are running in this election. The county’s board of elections has requested our opinion as to the validity of 13 absentee ballots. All of them were delivered to the board with certificates attached indicating that the voters had been assisted in preparing their ballots because of “illness or physical disability.” In every case the person providing such assistance was a…