SHAKESPEAREAN GIFTS

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LIFE OF PI

Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI, which was the Opening Night selection for the 50th Anniversary New York Film Festival (NYFF 50) contains a great action/fantasy philosophical film, the story of a young man and a tiger adrift at sea alone, together on a lifeboat.

LIFE OF PIOPENING NIGHT
NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2012

For the story of the boy and the tiger, this film is entertaining... indeed, amazing and worth seeing.


As a film, however, there is a problem...Ang Lee puts LIFE OF PI's central story, this great action/fantasy philosophical film, inside a frame that diminishes the brilliance of the conceit by saying too much and saying it unconvincingly.

The frame sets the story in a spiritual patina that does not ring true either as philosophy or as character, then goes on to further weaken the story by undermining the suspension of disbelief that gives every story its essential truth, without replacing it with a higher truth. (The spirituality may work well and be an essential part of the best-selling book LIFE OF PI, by Yann Martel, from which the film derives, but it does not, IMHO, work in this film as it was done.)

Alas! That's too bad. Because the inside, the story of the tiger and the man on the boat, is brilliantly conceived, brilliantly told, and brilliantly executed.

The film is beautifully shot in a "gentle" 3D that enhances the image without calling attention to itself.  It simply makes everything seem just a little more real.

The Indian actor (Suraj Sharma, in his only film role) who plays Pi (the name is explained near the beginning of the film)  is terrific.  The (real!) tigers that play The Tiger are terrific (as are the digital effects that also contribute to The Tiger). The story of how the film was put together would be a great addition to the Blu-Ray disc or the Official Website.

Ang Lee
Director LIFE OF PI
Talking with the press
On the plaza outside Walter Reade Theater
At Lincoln Center
Photo By Eric Roffman
Ang Lee, the director has had quite an interesting career.  His films range from Crouching Tiger  Hidden Dragon, to Brokeback Mountain (for which he won the Oscar for Best Director), to Sense and Sensibility.  Eat Drink Man Woman was perhaps the first film that brought him to the attention of the American critics.

He was born in Taiwan about 58 years ago and went to college there, and then studied theater and film at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NYU.

This is a film I can highly recommend! Just (don't take the beginning too seriously,  ignore the end, and) enjoy the middle! 

LINKS

FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
www.filmlinc.com

LIFE OF PI - OFFICIAL FILM SITE
http://www.lifeofpimovie.com/

LIFE OF PI - THE FILM - WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi_(film)

LIFE OF PI - THE BOOK - WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi

ANG LEE - WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Lee

ANG LEE - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000487

ANG LEE ON AMAZON

 



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GLEESON AND VIKANDER FROM ANNA KARENINA

Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson and Swedish actress Alicia Vikander were honored this year as two of The Variety 10 Top Actors to Watch, and they were both at the Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF 2012).  Alicia with A ROYAL AFFAIR (an important film set in the 1700's about today's current politics), and Domhnall with SHADOW DANCER (a spy thriller).

As it happens, the two actors already knew each other before they came to the Hamptons, since they were on-screen lovers in ANNA KARENINA.

Here are some snapshots of Alicia and Domhnall from HIFF 2012.  Both actors are rising stars with great careers! Some links to their work are listed below after the pix.

Alicia Vikander at HIFF 2012

A ROYAL AFFAIR

ANNA KARENINA

Photo by Eric Roffman - QPORIT

Domhnall Gleeson at HIFF 2012

SHADOW DANCER

ANNA KARENINA

Photo by Eric Roffman - QPORIT

Alicia Vikander at HIFF 2012

A ROYAL AFFAIR

ANNA KARENINA

Photo by Eric Roffman - QPORIT

 
ALICIA VIKANDER – IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2539953/

ALICIA VIKANDER IN A ROYAL AFFAIR - QPORIT
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-royal-affair.html

ALICIA VIKANDER ON AMAZON

DOMHNALL GLEESON - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1727304/

Domhnall is well known in the US for his films, including...

Harry Potter (Bill Weasley)
True Grit (Moon, the kid)
Never Let Me Go (Rodney)

and Broadway theater, including a Tony nomination for...

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

DOMHNALL GLEESON ON AMAZON

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MARIN IRELAND - SPARROWS DANCE & MARIE ANTOINETTE

SPARROWS DANCE

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY NOAH BUSCHEL

Paul Sparks and Marin Ireland
SPARROWS DANCE
HIFF 2012
Photo Courtesy HIFF

World Premiere

MARIE ANTOINETTE

By DAVID ADJMI

Directed by REBECCA TAICHMAN

A Co-Production with American Repertory Theater

Yale Repertory Theatre

October 26-November 17, 2012

Marin Ireland Fred Arsenault Brian Wiles Teale Sperling
MARIE ANTOINETTE
Yale Rep
Photo © T Charles Erickson, 2012


Marin Ireland is one of the best and busiest actresses around. I managed to catch her at the 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival. (She starred in SPARROWS DANCE, plus two other films at HIFF!)

She had just come in the night before from LA where she was filming a TV pilot about a young lawyer at an Innocence-Project type of organization, and leaving the next day on her way to Pennsylvania for some final shots to wrap the project, then off to Yale Rep where she is (CURRENTLY!) starring as MARIE ANTOINETTE in an interesting new play. And then there's another film in the works. It's exhausting just to write about it, yet she looked fresh in the Hamptons, and chipper again when I saw her at Yale.

I spoke with Marin in a small space at HIFF where other interviews were also taking place, so it's just a bit too noisy, even after I softened some of the alien sounds, but I think Marin can be easily understood (though her voice sounds slightly tinnier than in life, since I had to filter out some of the bass to soften the voice of the guy talking behind me).

Marin talks about the film, the play, and some of her thoughts about acting in films and theater.




Marin has a phenomenal range: from films to theater; from experimental modern plays to Shakespeare. She is a very natural actress -- she seems to just make each character a part of herself -- or herself a part of each character. Her style (though not her appearance -- she is slight, not tall) reminds me strongly of Jill Clayburgh who also excelled at inhabiting her roles with a versatile naturalness and intense inner life.

SPARROWS DANCE is a sensitive film about an agoraphobic young woman. She won't leave her apartment, but when her toilet overflows the world's nicest plumber comes to fix it.

The actress, director and writer convey a feeling that they deeply understand her situation. They understand the plumber, too, and his relation to her. Paul Sparks gives a terrific performance. (I'm less convinced that they understand plumbing... The plumbing problems she had, and the repairs they seemed to be making, did not seem to make sense to me. But, then, it's a minor issue and I don't understand plumbing either.)

It's a small-scale, low budget, indie film... a very very good one and it leaves you with a satisfied feeling that you have understood something about the characters, about life and about love.

(Note to producers: market it for Valentine's Day.)

While SPARROWS DANCE is very simple and naturalistic -- albeit about a problem that is extra-ordinary enough to be interesting, MARIE ANTOINETTE, a new play at the Yale Rep is mannered in the extreme, about a Court that was mannered in the extreme.

In this production Marie appears at age 21 or so, with a valley girl accent, fashion obsessed. The opening tableau in fact is so original and spectacular it draws immediate applause.

It's not completely clear whether this accent is the creative team's specific impression/translation into English of young, somewhat ignorant, self-centered, light-headed Marie Antoinette’s poor Austrian accented French; or just a way of conveying a light-headed immature woman out of her depth.

Actually I don't think the production was aiming for historically detailed accuracy. So this is more of a generic Marie Antoinette in a story about discovering responsibility too late, and (since a major part of the story is The King, who's not up to the task) how a Kingdom can be lost for want of a King -- at least a King who can make the right decisions in a tough military and financial situation.

It is probably not a coincidence that this play was in fact written during the Bush years.

On the one hand, this play reminds me of CLOUD ATLAS, which in part deals with the relation between the leaders and the population; and even the BACCHAE, which (at least for me) is the story of a revolution by the subjects -- who consider themselves the real gods -- over a repressive regime; and, on the other hand, the recent A ROYAL AFFAIR which also deals with a similar period and a similar situation: a young woman trucked in (or carriaged in) across Europe in the mid 1700's, to marry a difficult and immature King, and the politics of governing.

At one point, Marie begins talking to a sheep (played by David Greenspan with a puppet/sheep-dummy). It is deliberately ambiguous -- the sheep could be an external metaphor for Marie's thoughts, or for the "polis" as in a Greek Chorus, or the playwright's voice, or absurdist theater, or an extra character that was needed when no human was available... or some combination of these... changing from scene to scene. These scenes were developed and experimented with extensively in rehearsal until they "worked". Even if we are not sure what The Sheep means, we do believe that The Sheep knows what he means, and so we can accept him.

David Greenspan and Marin Ireland
MARIE ANTOINETTE
Yale Rep
Photo © T Charles Erickson, 2012

Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst had a much more sophisticated Marie. Yes, she arrived as a young girl, but she had more depth, and the debacle was less the result of royal incompetence in Sofia's film -- which was something of an "apologia" for Marie Antoinette -- than in Adjani's story, which was more of a condemnation of royal incompetence.

Marin fully embraced the vacant Marie Antoinette at the beginning and the desperate Marie at the end; both completely different from the self-inflicted blockage that characterized the agoraphobia in SPARROWS DANCE. All different, yet all Marin.


This Marie Antoinette was produced in cooperation with Diane Paulus' A. R. T. in Cambridge Mass, where there was an earlier production of Marie Antoinette with another lead actress.

Yale Rep is quite a wonderful place for interesting theater. It's only 90 minutes from NYC and worth the trip.

Here's their schedule

October 26-November 17, 2012

World Premiere
MARIE ANTOINETTE
By DAVID ADJMI
Directed by REBECCA TAICHMAN
A Co-Production with American Repertory Theater

November 30-December 22, 2012

World Premiere
DEAR ELIZABETH
By SARAH RUHL
A play in letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell
and back again
Directed by LES WATERS

January 25-February 16, 2013

STONES IN HIS POCKETS
By MARIE JONES
Directed by EVAN YIONOULIS

March 15-April 13, 2013

PAUL GIAMATTI
HAMLET
By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Directed by JAMES BUNDY

April 26-May 18, 2013

World Premiere
IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS
Film and Screenplay by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Adapted for the Stage by Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff
Directed by Robert Woodruff
Featuring Bill Camp

LINKS

HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
www.hamptonsfilmfest.org

SPARROWS DANCE
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1822311/

NOAH BUSCHEL
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1231757/

MARIN IRELAND
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1677477/

PAUL SPARKS
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817027/

NOAH BUSCHEL
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1231757/

ONEZERO FILMS - PRODUCER
http://www.onezerofilms.com/OneZero/ABOUT_old2.html

YALE REP
http://www.yalerep.org/

DAVID ADJMI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Adjmi

QPORIT ON A ROYAL AFFAIR
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-royal-affair.html

QPORIT ON SOFIA COPPOLA'S MARIE ANTOINETTE
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2006/11/secret-spine-of-marie-antoinette.html

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SNL -- NOV 10, 2012 -- ANNE HATHAWAY WITH RIHANNA

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/

Anne Hathaway is a big star.  She's a great singer and both a comic and serious actress.  She is best known both for films from pre-teen fairytale fantasies like THE PRINCESS DIARIES to THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA and LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS.  Most recently in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and coming soon in LES MISERABLES.

RIHANNA is a top pop singer.


Here's a brief recap of the show...


COLD OPEN - Romney after the election results... not very funny, insightful or touching. Not really lame. Just kind of benign.


MONOLOG - A Les Miz thing with not great lyrics.


GIRLFRIENDS TALK SHOW – Co-hosts – One now has a new best friend. They bicker. Not pleasant. Not funny. Not interesting.


VIDEO – Green glop & a stupid dance (they said it, not just me). One dance video went viral. I guess they’re thinking, “Why not another?” Supposed to be hypnotic. Nope.


HOMELAND – A sharp parody with many funny moments.


MCDONALDS – Layoffs. More insults. “Andrew” made a funny face. This sketch was unpleasant and just awful. Who wrote this? Or let it get aired?


WEEKEND UPDATE – One good Petraeus joke.

…OBAMA – Kind of a lame Obama. Best line – He lost, and I even gave him a one debate head start. Also, “Come on bounce with me a little bit.”

…DRUNK UNCLE was awful.


ELLEN - Another lame sketch.

The sketches were so bad, the commercials were a relief. Baileys Cream ad was a winner. Some film and game previews were good. But the Surface ad is pointless and derivative, dumb and meaningless.


MUSEUM: AMERICAN GOTHIC – This was a great concept, showing how the pose developed, but the writing did not rise to the opportunity. Note: Anne Hathaway does a great cross-eyed.


RIHANNA’S first song had a nice greenscreen/backdrop look, and the second song was terrific. Interesting song; and the lighting and staging was perfection. One of the best song performances on SNL ever.


The fake ad for the fake medicine, FLARITIN, for fake allergies was amusing.


With just one good sketch, one amusing sketch, one great song, and the rest boring to unpleasant, all in all it was one of the worst SNLs… despite Anne Hathaway – sketches have got to be written, after all --




ANNE HATHAWAY ON WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway

ANNE HATHAWAY ON IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004266/

ANNE HATHAWAY ON AMAZON



RIHANNA ON WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihanna

RIHANNA ON IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1511633152/nm1982597

RIHANNA ON AMAZON

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VOTING BY E-MAIL IN NJ

NJ Voters displaced by Sandy should be able to vote by e-mail.

The procedure, as I understand it, is to contact your County Clerk by phone or e-mail, receive a ballot, and e-mail it back by 8 PM tonight.

If the County Clerk does not respond in a timely fashion this procedure would be a sham.

Hopefully, voting will go relatively smoothly and the election will not be decided again by one vote as it was in 2000.  (The one vote being a swing vote on a 5-4 divided Supreme Court.)

Here is some contact information for the County Clerks.  Note that you may need to look up the e-mail address by going to the website of the county clerk. 

If links do not work on this copy of the info, go to

http://nj.gov/state/elections/voting-information-local-officials.html#ber

click on the website there for your County Clerk and find their e-mail address on the website contact information.


Good Luck! This is an important election!

Local Election Officials Index

Atlantic

Gloucester

Ocean

Bergen

Hudson

Passaic

Burlington

Hunterdon

Salem

Camden

Mercer

Somerset

Cape May

Middlesex

Sussex

Cumberland

Monmouth

Union

Essex

Morris

Warren

Atlantic

County Clerk
Edward P. McGettigan
Clerk's Office
5901 Main Street
Mays Landing, NJ 08330-1797
609- 641-7867
(FAX) 609-909-5107
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:00pm
website

Superintendent of Elections
Mr. John W. Mooney
1333 Atlantic Avenue
4th Floor
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
609-343-2245
(FAX) 609-343-2240
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:00pm
website

Board of Elections
Historic Court House Complex
5903 Main Street
Mays Landing, NJ 08330
609-645-5867
(FAX) 609-645-5875
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:00pm

Bergen

County Clerk
John S. Hogan
One Bergen County Plaza
Room 130
Hackensack, NJ 07601
201-336-7073
(FAX) 201-336-7002
Office Hours: 9:00am-4:30pm
website

Superintendent of Elections
Ms. Patricia A. DiCostanzo
One Bergen County Plaza
Room 380
Hackensack, NJ 07601
201-336-6100
(FAX) 201-336-6111
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Board of Elections
One Bergen County Plaza
Room 310
Hackensack, NJ 07601
201-336-6225
(FAX) 201-336-6234
Office Hours: 9:00am-4:30pm
website

Burlington

County Clerk
Hon. Timothy D. Tyler
Courts Building, Room 104
P.O. Box 6000
49 Rancocas Road
Mount Holly, NJ 08060-1397
609-265-5122
(FAX) 609-265-0696
Office Hours: Mondays: 8:00am-7:00pm;
Tues-Fri: 8:00am-4:00pm
website

Superintendent of Elections
Mrs. Joanne Nyikita
755 Eayrestown Road
PO Box 6000
Mount Holly, NJ 08060
609-265-5111
(FAX) 609-265-5990
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Board of Elections
49 Rancocas Road
Room G-22, P.O. Box 6000
Mount Holly, NJ 08060
609-265-5062
(FAX) 609-265-3131
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:00pm
website

Camden

County Clerk
Hon. Joseph Ripa
Courthouse, Rm 102
520 Market Street
P.O. Box 150
Camden, NJ 08101-0150
856-225-7219
(FAX) 856-756-2213
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:00pm
website

Superintendent of Elections 
Ms. Phyllis Pearl
7250 Westfield Avenue
Suite C
P.O. Box 268
Pennsauken, NJ 08110
856-661-3555
(FAX) 856-661-3556
Office Hours: 9:00am-4:00pm
website

Board of Elections
Forrest Hall
509 Lakeland Road
Blackwood, NJ 08012
856-401-8683
(FAX) 856-401-8689
Office Hours: 9:00am-4:00pm
website

Cape May

County Clerk
Hon. Rita Marie Fulginiti
7 N. Main Street, P.O. Box 5000
Cape May Courthouse, NJ 08210-5000
609-465-1013 
(FAX) 609-465-8625
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Commissioner of Registration 
Mr. John B. Feeley
10-12 W. Mechanic Street
P.O. Box 5000
Cape May Courthouse, NJ 08210
609-465-1050
(FAX) 609-465-1639
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
10-12 Mechanic Street
P.O. Box 5000
Cape May Courthouse, NJ 08210-5000
609-465-1050
(FAX) 609-465-1639
Office Hours: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
website

Cumberland

County Clerk
Hon. Gloria Noto
60 W. Broad Street
Bridgeton, NJ 08302-2665
856-453-4860
(FAX) 856-455-1410
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:00pm
website

Commissioner of Registration
Mrs. Nancy L. Sungenis
555 Shiloh Pike
Bridgeton, NJ 08302
856-453-5801
(FAX) 856-451-3172
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
555 Shiloh Pike
Bridgeton, NJ 08302
856-453-5801
(FAX) 856-451-3172
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:00pm
website

Essex

County Clerk
Hon. Christopher J. Durkin
P.O. Box 690
Newark, NJ 07101-0690
973-621-4921
(FAX) 973-621-2527/2537
(for regular mail delivery use P.O. Box 690, Newark, NJ 07101-0690)
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:00pm
website

Superintendent of Elections 
Kathy V. Sumter, Acting Superintendent of Elections
Hall of Records
465 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
Fourth Floor, Room 417 A
Newark, NJ 07102
973-621-5061
(FAX) 973-621-6464
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:00pm

Board of Elections
Hall of Records
465 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
Fourth Floor, Room 411
Newark, NJ 07102
973-621-5071
(FAX) 973-621-2540
Office Hours: 9:00am-4:00pm

Gloucester

County Clerk
Hon. James Hogan
Court House, 1st Floor
P.O. Box 129
1 North Broad Street
Woodbury, NJ 08096-3327
856-853-3241
(FAX) 856-853-3327
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Superintendent of Elections
Ms. Stephanie Salvatore
P.O. Box 352
Woodbury, NJ 08096
856-384-4500
(FAX) 856-251-1647
(For deliveries other than USPS use: 550 Grove Road, W. Deptford, NJ 08066)
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
PO Box 352
Woodbury, NJ 08096
856-384-4500
(FAX) 856-251-1647
(For deliveries other than USPS use: 550 Grove Road, Paulsboro, NJ 08066)
Office Hours: 9:00am-4:30pm
website

Hudson

County Clerk
Hon. Barbara A. Netchert
Hudson County Plaza
257 Cornelison Avenue
4th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07302
201-369-3470
(FAX) 201-369-3478
Office Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm
website

Superintendent of Elections
Ms. Marie Borace
Hudson County Plaza
257 Cornelison Avenue
4th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07302
201-369-7791
FAX 201-369-7743
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
Hudson County Plaza
257 Cornelison Avenue
4th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07302
201-369-3435
(FAX) 201-369-3436
Office Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm

Hunterdon

County Clerk
Hon. Mary H. Melfi
71 Main Street
P.O. Box 2900
Hall of Records
Flemington, NJ 08822-2900
908-788-1214 
(FAX) 908-782-4068
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Commissioner of Registration 
Ms. Lois Zarish
71 Main Street
Bldg. 3A, 3rd Floor
P.O. Box 2900
Flemington, NJ 08822-9952
908-788-1190
(FAX) 908-806-4686
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
Permanent Registration Office
71 Main Street
Bldg. 3A, 3rd Floor
P.O. Box 2900
Flemington, NJ 08822
908-788-1190
(FAX) 908-806-4686
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Mercer

County Clerk
Hon. Paula Sollami-Covello
Court House, P.O. Box 8068
209 S. Broad Street
Trenton, NJ 08650-0068
609-989-6998
(FAX) 609-989-1111
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Superintendent of Elections
Ms. Catherine DiCostanzo
640 S. Broad Street
PO Box 8068
Trenton, NJ 08650
609-989-6750
(FAX) 609-989-6888
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:00pmwebsite

Board of Elections
640 S. Broad Street
PO Box 8068
Trenton, NJ 08650
609-989-6522
(FAX) 609-278-2713
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:00pm
website

Middlesex

County Clerk
Hon. Elaine Flynn
P.O. Box 1110
75 Bayard Street, 4th Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1110
732-745-3827
(FAX) 732-745-2170
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:15pm
website

Commissioner of Registration
Mr. Daniel Frankel
777 Jersey Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-3605
732-745-3471
(FAX) 732-214-1656
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:15pm Tues. 8:00am-6:30pm

Board of Elections
777 Jersey Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-745-3471
(FAX) 732-214-1656
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:15pm Tues.:8:00am-6:30pm
website

Monmouth

County Clerk
Hon. M. Claire French
300 Halls Mill Road
Freehold, NJ 07728-1254
732-431-7790
(FAX) 732-409-4887 and
732-409-7566
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Superintendent of Elections 
Ms. Hedra Siskel
300 Halls Mill Road
Freehold, NJ 07728
732-431-7780
(FAX) 732-431-7870
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
300 Halls Mill Road
Freehold, NJ 07728
732-431-7150
(FAX) 732-303-7648
Office Hours: 8:30 am - 4:30pm
website

Morris

County Clerk
Hon. Joan Bramhall
P.O. Box 315 - Court Street
Morristown, NJ 07963-0315
973-285-6059
(FAX) 973-285-5233
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:30pmwebsite

Superintendent of Elections 
Ms. Dale Kramer, Chief Deputy
PO Box 900
Morristown, NJ 07963-0900
973-285-6715
(FAX) 973-285-5208
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
PO Box 900
Morristown, NJ 07963-0900
973-285-8350
(FAX) 973-285-8412
(for deliveries other than USPS, use Hall of Records Building, Court Street,2nd Floor)
Office Hours: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
website

Ocean

County Clerk
Hon. Scott M. Colabella
Court House
P.O. Box 2191
118 Washington Street
Toms River, NJ 08754-2191
732-929-2018 
(FAX) 732-349-4336
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pmwebsite

Commissioner of Registration 
Mr. Wyatt Earp
129 Hooper Avenue
PO Box 2006
Toms River, NJ 08754-2006
732-929-2167
(FAX) 732-506-5110
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
129 Hooper Avenue
P.O. Box 2006
Toms River, NJ 08754-2006
732-929-2167
(FAX) 732-506-5110
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm
website

Passaic

County Clerk
Hon. Kristin M. Corrado
401 Grand Street
Room 130
Paterson, NJ 07505
973-225-3632 ext 500 or 501
(FAX) 973-742-5744
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Superintendent of Elections 
Mr. Robert J. De Mers, Jr.
311 Pennsylvania Avenue
Room 103
Paterson, NJ 07503
973-881-4515
(FAX) 973-881-1634
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
Summer Office Hours: 8:00am-3:30pm

Board of Elections
401 Grand Street
Room 123
Paterson, NJ 07503
973-881-4527
(FAX) 973-523-9121
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Salem

County Clerk
Hon. Gilda T. Gill
92 Market Street
Salem, NJ 08079-1913
856-935-7510 Ext. 820
(FAX) 856-935-8882
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Commissioner of Registration 
Mr. Michael Facemyer
94 Market Street
Salem, NJ 08079-9856
856-935-7510 ext. 8330
(FAX) 856-935-6725
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
94 Market Street
Salem, NJ 08079
856-935-7510 ext. 8330
(FAX) 856-935-6725
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Somerset

County Clerk
Hon. Brett Radi
Administration Building
20 Grove Street
P.O. Box 3000
Somerville, NJ 08876-1262
908-231-7013 
(FAX) 908-253-8853
Office Hours: 8:15am-4:00pm
website

Commissioner of Registration 
20 Grove Street
P.O. Box 3000
Somerville, NJ 08876-1262
908-231-7084
(FAX) 908-231-9465
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
Administration Building
20 Grove Street
P.O. Box 3000
Somerville, NJ 08876-1262
908-231-7084
(FAX) 908-231-9465
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:00pm
website

Sussex

County Clerk
Jeff Parrott
83 Spring Street
Suite 304
Newton, NJ 07860-2080
973-579-0900 
(FAX) 973-383-7493
Office Hours:
Weekdays: 8:00am-4:00pm;
every 1st and 3rd Monday 8:00am-6:00pm
website

Commissioner of Registration
Deborah Wirths
83 Spring Street
Suite 305
Newton, NJ 07860-2080
973-579-0950
(FAX) 973-579-0955
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:00pm

Board of Elections
83 Spring Street
Suite 305
Newton, NJ 07860-2080
973-579-0950
(FAX) 973-579-0955
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:00pm
website

Union

County Clerk
Hon. Joanne Rajoppi
2 Broad Street
Room 113
Elizabeth, NJ 07201-2299
908-527-4996/4997
(FAX) 908-558-2589
Office Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm
website

Commissioner of Registration
Ms. Marie Oakie
271 North Broad Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07208
908-527-4123
(FAX) 908-527-4127
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:00pm

Board of Elections
271 North Broad Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07208
908-527-4123
(FAX) 908-527-4127
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:00pm
website

Warren

County Clerk
Hon. Patricia J. Kolb
Court House
413 Second Street
Belvidere, NJ 07823-1500
908-475-6211
(FAX) 908-475-6208
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm
website

Commissioner of Registration
Mr. Harold Brown
413 Second Street
Belvidere, NJ 07823
908-475-6313
(FAX) 908-475-6221
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm

Board of Elections
Court House
413 Second Street
Belvidere, NJ 07823
908-475-6313
(FAX) 908-475-6221
Office Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm
website

Here are some additional sites for information:

http://nj.gov/state/elections/form_pdf/vote-mail-ballot-012712-ber.pdf

http://nj.gov/state/elections/voting-information-local-officials.html#ber


http://www.co.bergen.nj.us/countyclerk/
http://www.co.bergen.nj.us/elections/default.html
http://www.co.bergen.nj.us/paboe/index.htm


http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/03/14908931-nj-voters-displaced-by-sandy-will-get-chance-to-vote-by-email?lite

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/commentary/voting-by-email-in-hurricane-damaged-nj-could-cause-major-migraine

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