Election includes four questions for voters

| 29 Sep 2011 | 12:16

    WEST MILFORD — In West Milford residents who go to the polls will choose two council people and a mayor on Tuesday. Read the candidates’ statements on pages 10 and 11 in this week’s Messenger. New Jersey voters will decide four public questions in the Nov. 6 election, which is the most submitted to voters by the state since 1995. Voters will be asked whether to: • Permanently dedicate all money earned from last year’s sales tax increase to property tax relief. • Approve borrowing $450 million for stem cell research. • Approve borrowing $200 million for farmland and open space preservation. • Revise language outlining when voting rights can be denied by deleting from the state Constitution the phrase ``idiot or insane person’’ and replacing it with the phrase ``person who has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting.’’ The polls will be open from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. On Tuesday night West Milford Town Clerk Antoinette Battaglia will post the results on the township Web site and update as necessary.