{"id":198388,"date":"2026-04-15T18:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198388\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:55:02","slug":"ballot-drop-boxes-open-friday-april-17th-polling-places-announced-for-the-2026-primary-election-on-june-2-county-of-union-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198388\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballot Drop Boxes Open Friday April 17th; Polling Places Announced for the 2026 Primary Election on June 2 \u2013 County of Union, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Union County Board of Elections Administrator Nicole DiRado informs voters that the secure drop box locations for the 2026 Primary Election open on Friday, April 17, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two changes in location this year in Hillside and Summit.\u00a0 The Hillside drop box is moved to Conant Park, 320 Conant St.\u00a0 The Summit drop box is now located at the Summit Community Center, 100 Morris Ave. The full list of drop boxes is available on the UCBOE website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucnj.org\/ucboe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.ucnj.org\/ucboe<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All 24 secure ballot drop boxes will remain open through the close of the polls on June 2, 2026 at 8:00pm. Drop boxes are under camera surveillance 24\/7, available to voters 24\/7 and ADA accessible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally the list of certified polling locations is available on the Board\u2019s website.\u00a0 There are changes this year in Elizabeth, Linden, Roselle Park and Union.\u00a0 Affected voters will be notified via postcard prior to Election Day.\u00a0 Each voter\u2019s polling location is also available on their sample ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voters are encouraged to bring their sample ballots with them to the polling location for easy check-in!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a complete list of polling locations and ballot drop boxes in Union County, please visit the Board of Elections website online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucnj.org\/boe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.ucnj.org\/boe<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Union County Board of Elections Administrator Nicole DiRado informs voters that the secure drop box locations for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-198388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}