NJ: Some newly registered voters will be handed provisional ballots on Election Day

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New Jersey election officials say they're struggling to keep up with a record tide of new voter registrations.

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Elections supervisors are asking workers to put in 12-hour days and work weekends, and they're hiring temporary employees or borrowing workers from other government departments to try to process the new registrations.

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Some county elections supervisors say they probably won't be able to process all the new registrations by Election Day, meaning some registered voters will be handed provisional ballots when they show up at their polling places.

New Jersey officials say they have never seen this many new registrations. They attribute the spike to a push to register voters at driver's license offices, and to a heightened interest in presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.

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Voters can go to a judge in each county on Election Day to ask for an order that would allow them vote on a machine. Lawyers from the state, political parties and the American Civil Liberties Union will be on hand to help resolve disputes over whether people are registered.

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