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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.
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 ...
A federal judge has denied the request made by a group of New Jersey county clerks to hold off on enforcing the order he issued last week that would change the ballot design for the Democratic ...
All of the New Jersey county clerks participating in the appeal of a federal order about the design of Democratic primary ballots last week have withdrawn from the case.. They will use the office ...
Due to this unique preferential-ballot-placement "county line" system in New Jersey, some NJ county parties hold conventions to decide which candidate gains the sought-after county-endorsed ballot position in the June primary, while other counties issue the line by private leadership fiat. [43]
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 ...
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's one-of-a-kind method of drawing primary ballots prompted some apparent skepticism from a federal judge Monday as he considered a legal challenge claiming the system favors preferred ...