Bergen-Style Election: Your Vote Not Needed ; 2-Hour Freeholder Balloting Ended After 15 Minutes

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For members of Bergen's Democratic Committee, the selection of a new county freeholder Tuesday night was already a limited affair: Only one candidate running.

But the election, which used paper ballots and was scheduled to last for two hours, went from formality to fiat when Democratic county officials called off voting after 15 minutes, saying that the election of the Rev. Vernon Walton had been decided by a "voice vote."

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Bergen-Style Election: Your Vote Not Needed ; 2-Hour Freeholder Balloting Ended After 15 Minutes

Party officials then scrawled a sign and tacked it onto the front door of Hackensack Middle School, thanking those who wo...

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