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New Jersey’s unique way of displaying county-endorsed candidates on the ballot has been struck down by a federal judge, after a lawsuit by Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who is running for Senate, and ...

Two Democratic county clerks have moved to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of county organization lines, ...

The county line system gave political parties in all but two of the state’s 21 counties the power to help design ... New Jersey will too. The bill Murphy signed will shift to office block ...

Amendments to the bill have fair ballot advocates crying foul. A bill to redesign New ... U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi ordered that the June Democratic primary use office-block-style ballots ...

New Jersey Senate bill S4142, which revises the design of primary election ballots, has drawn criticism for potentially hindering fair elections. Critics argue that the bill's complex design ...

(Photo by Jennifer Peacock | Assembly Republican Office) Lawmakers on a Senate panel on Thursday unanimously approved a bill to codify changes to New Jersey’s ballot design over the opposition ...

Kennedy Jr. didn't violate New Jersey ... elections official said Wednesday. Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, who also serves as secretary of state, issued an order upholding in part an administrative law ...

New Jersey Superior Court Judge Peter Warshaw said in his 100-page ... during which the state’s long-time county line ballot system was tossed out as unconstitutional.

New Jersey is one of the last places in the country where the phrases "party boss" and "political machine" don't just harken back to a bygone era, but describe a present-day reality. In the Garden ...