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Voting rights advocates scored a major victory Friday in New Jersey when a federal judge struck down the use of a controversial primary ballot design that favored party-backed candidates.
The line — a quirk of New Jersey politics — is the preferred ballot position given to candidates who are backed by county political organizations, and it has long been targeted for reform.
The fallout over the decision will be felt for the next 10 weeks as county officials scramble to redraft new vote-by-mail ballots and in-person voting ballots for the June 4 primary.
Platkin noted that the design used by the other 49 states and two New Jersey counties known as the office-block ballot “avoids these concerns for candidates and voters alike, while still ...
The line may be awarded by the county party chair absent meaningful input from the county committee members. In New Jersey, the county committee is typically made up of one male resident and one female resident elected from each election district or ward (sometimes known in other states as a precinct) within a municipality. [38]
New Jersey county clerks have withdrawn their appeals to a federal court ruling requiring them to redraw primary election ballots that some argued favored candidates backed by the state's ...
Naming the clerks in each 19 counties that use the line ballot design as defendants, Kim alleges in a lawsuit that New Jersey's ballot design creates an unfair advantage for the candidate awarded ...
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday forced New Jersey to scrap its unique primary ballot design that gives party-backed candidates an advantage, in a decision that could significantly upset the ...