Polls Open Tuesday for Special Senate Primary

Polls will be open Tuesday in the Democratic and Republican primaries for the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant with the passing in June of longtime Sen. Frank Lautenberg.

Recent polls show Newark Mayor Cory Booker with at least a 40-point lead over his competitors on the Democratic side: Congressmen Rush Holt and Frank Pallone and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver.

On the Republican ballot, only two candidates are vying to take on likely nominee Booker: Steve Lonegan and Alieta Eck. Lonegan, a former mayor of Bogota, heads into Tuesday with a 60-point lead in recent polls.

While Booker recently campaigned in Ridgewood, only Lonegan has made an appearance in Wyckoff or Franklin Lakes, railing against “Obamacare” and recently leaked details about the National Security Administration’s domestic surveillance program at a Franklin Lakes Tea Party meeting in July, according to a report by NJ.com.

For Wyckoff voters, changes in polling locations introduced for the June primary will remain in effect, and if you plan on going to the polls Tuesday, here’s a refresher on how polling places have changed:

• Districts one and five, which previously voted at Coolidge School, will now cast their ballots at Ceder Hill Christian Reformed Church.

• For voters who previously turned out to Eisenhower School: districts two and six will now vote at the Wyckoff Public Library, and district ten will vote at the Cedar Hill Christian Reformed Church.

• For voters who previously went to Lincoln School: district three will vote at the library and districts seven and nine will vote at Larkin House.

• If you used to vote at Sicomac School, you will now vote at Dairy Barn, Faith Community Reformed Church.