Monmouth County Clerk Christine Hanlon is probably the most efficient clerk in the state especially when it comes to elections.
She might be a candidate herself, but you don’t see any reference to herself in the plenitude of press releases she send out to be sure the public is informed there is indeed an election and everyone should vote in it!
The press releases let you know everything from how to vote, when the deadlines are and even how you can check your own mail in ballot just to be sure it actually arrived and is being counted. The following is her latest press release. A former practicing attorney, and a great lover of Monmouth County history, Ms Hanlon obviously enjoys keeping people informed.
Monmouth County Clerk Christine Giordano Hanlon is reminding Monmouth County voters who choose to vote by mail in the 2025 Primary Election that they can sign up for the County’s enhanced ballot tracking notification system. The County’s ballot tracking system, BallotTrax, was launched five years ago by Hanlon and the Monmouth County Board of Elections to notify voters regarding the status of their mail-in ballots.
Voters who sign up for Monmouth County BallotTrax will receive alerts when their ballot has been received by the County Board of Elections and again after the ballot has been counted. Users of this free service can opt to enable notifications by text message, phone or email. Monmouth County vote-by-mail voters may sign up to receive BallotTrax notifications at MonmouthCountyBallotTrax.com.
“We are proud to be the first and only County in the state to provide this free, enhanced notification system for our residents who vote by mail,” said Clerk Hanlon. “Transparency in our elections is very important, and this service helps provide peace of mind to our voters.”
BallotTrax alerts voters of the status of their ballots rather than requiring voters to continually log into the system for updates. Voters can also check the status of their ballots via New Jersey’s ballot tracking system, which does not provide notifications, by visiting https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/vote-track-my-ballot.shtml.
For questions about the returning of mail-in ballots for counting, please contact the County Board of Elections at 732-431-7802. For questions about the issuance of mail-in ballots, please contact the County Clerk’s Election Office at 732-431-7790.
For more information about elections in Monmouth County, visit the County Clerk’s Elections website at MonmouthCountyVotes.com or download our free mobile app, Monmouth County Votes.
The Monmouth County Clerk serves as the Clerk of Elections, one of three independent offices that oversee different aspects of the elections process in Monmouth County.
The Office of the Monmouth County Clerk is comprised of five divisions handling elections, property recordings, archives, passports and records management.
The County Clerk’s Office also provides resident, veteran and Gold Star Family identification cards to eligible county residents, administers oaths to notaries and public officials and performs wedding ceremonies.
The Monmouth County Clerk is a constitutional and administrative officer elected to a five-year term by the voters of Monmouth County. Christine Giordano Hanlon, Esq. was elected Monmouth County Clerk in November 2015 and was re-elected to a second term in November 2020.
