From checking your voter registration to filling out and tracking your mail-in ballot, there’s a lot to know ahead of November’s election. The state’s hybrid voting plan means you can vote in person using a provisional ballot. But, for the first time in New Jersey history due to the ongoing pandemic, most votes will be cast through the mail. NJ Spotlight News Editor-at-Large Colleen O’Dea talks with Anchor Briana Vannozzi to explain the process and what voters need to know in order to make their voice heard.
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For the first time in New Jersey history most votes will be cast through the mail
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Colleen O’Dea has spent her entire career reporting New Jersey news and won numerous state and national journalism awards and fellowships. She joined NJ Spotlight News in 2011 and now serves as its data reporter, as well as covering general assignment topics that include elections, politics, housing and corrections.
Anchor
An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.