It used to be so easy to write a pre-election story regarding voting. All you had to do is remind readers of the registration cutoff and the election day date and times and compose a list of polling places. Zip, done, a few paragraphs at best.

Not now. Not in New Jersey.

To be sure, 2021 is an off-season general election that won’t attract nearly as many people as 2020, when Donald Trump squared off against Joe Biden.