Votebeat is a new pop-up nonprofit newsroom covering local election administration and voting in eight states, created by Chalkbeat. New Jersey is one of a handful of states that was lucky enough to land Votebeat reporters!

Our state's two Votebeat reporters are based at NJ Spotlight News. They include Jeff Pillets, a longtime former reporter for The Record, and Genesis Obando, a reporter and video journalist who recently graduated from Montclair State University. 

All of the nonpartisan coverage that Jeff and Genesis produce for Votebeat is freely available for republication. The republication guidelines can be found here.

The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University will send an email twice a week for the next few months to all of its NJ News Commons members with links to the latest Votebeat stories.