About 40 percent of Millburn-Short Hills voters headed to the polls on Tuesday, but the results from the election aren't expected to be certified until the end of the week.

Local voters elected Republicans Ted Bourke and Tom McDermott to the Township Committee Tuesday, defeating Democrats Peter Humphreys and Seth Levine. McDermott is an incumbent, entering his sixth term on the committee. It will be Bourke's first term.

Township Clerk Joanne Monarque estimates 5,649 of the townhip's 14,067 registered voters headed to the polls on Tuesday for the election. It is about 40 percent of voters. The county in unofficial returns has the voter turnout for Essex County at 34.6 percent.

Additionally, Monarque said she is waiting for county officials to certify the election results, which she does not expect to happen until Friday. The unofficial results of Tuesday's election can be found on the county clerk's website.

The certified voter count will include the provisional ballots, and Monarque said there were a few cast in Millburn. The provisional ballots were cast by people who have moved to Millburn from another Essex County community in which they had been registered to vote.

There also was a problem with a voting machine in District 15, which votes at Community Congregational Church, during Tuesday's election. Monarque said it remains unclear what the problem with the machine was, and 91 people used paper ballots to cast their vote.

"No one was turned away, and everyone was able to vote," she said of the problem. "That's the most important thing."

The local election officials did not count the 91 paper ballots, and they were sent to the county clerk's office to be recorded Tuesday night. Millburn police officers transported the paper ballots, the provisional ballots and other election vote items to the county clerk's office in Newark Tuesday night.

The unofficial results from the Township Committee race follow (a star denotes the winners):

Also, the state constitution will change because of Tuesday's voting. Results posted Wednesday show about 80 percent of voters chose "Yes" on the ballot's referendum question on if the state should be disallowed from dipping into assessments to state employees' salaries to balance the general fund.

Voting "yes" means the state can apply those assessed funds, including disability and unemployment, only to funds for which they have been gathered. In other words, when the state collects money from a paycheck, and that amount is taken out for disability, that money can be applied only to disability.

The referendum question, the only one on the ballot, was considered likely to pass. The measure was supported by both political parties, and a number of labor and business groups around the state.

The full text of the question follows:

New Jersey Referendums

Constitutional Amendment

Shall the amendment to Article VIII, Section II of the State Constitution, agreed to by the Legislature, which: prohibits collection by the State of assessments based solely on employee wages and salaries for any purpose other than providing employee benefits; dedicates all employer and employee contributions collected for any employee benefit fund, and all returns on investments of those contributions, to the purpose of that fund; and prohibits any transferring, borrowing, appropriating or using of those contributions or returns for any other purpose, be approved?

INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT

This proposed constitutional amendment prohibits the collection by the State of assessments based on employee wages and salaries for any purpose except paying employee benefits (or making other employee-authorized or federally required payments, in the case of the State's own employees), dedicates all contributions made to the unemployment compensation fund, the State disability benefits fund, or any other employee benefit fund, and all returns on investments of those contributions, to the purpose of that fund, and prohibits the use of those contributions or returns for any other purpose. The requirements of this proposed amendment do not apply to the gross income tax, which is exclusively dedicated by the Constitution to the purpose of reducing or offsetting local property taxes.

Marcia Worth, South Orange Patch editor, contributed to this story.