New Jersey is the only state in the country where ballots are organized into lines of endorsed slates, which give party-backed candidates an advantage over outsiders who want to challenge party leadership.
. Polls are open Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at locations in every county. No appointment is necessary.June 6: Primary Election Day. Polls close at 8 p.m. Vote-by-mail ballots must be returned or postmarked by that time as well.
“It's not really how democracy is supposed to work,” Sass Rubin said. “The reason we have primaries is because we decided to let individual voters decide who should be their candidate, not the parties.”in 2021 challenging the constitutionality of New Jersey’s ballot designs. The case remains undecided. In court papers, the lawyer for one of the county clerks named in the suit, Ocean County’s Scott Colabella, argued the endorsement and ballot design is within the political parties’ rights.
For example, in Legislative District 28, one of its two state Assembly seats is open. Assemblymember Mila Jasey, a Democrat from South Orange, is retiring after redistricting moved her town from the 27th District into the more urban 28th, where voters don’t know her as well. “Most counties have a convention and all district leaders meet up in person and they vote, and whoever gets the most votes out of all the district leaders there gets endorsed,” said Rebecca Scheer, a member of the Maplewood Democratic Committee. “In Essex County, we don't have a convention. District leaders never vote on anything.”
A ballot for primary voters in Maplewood, New Jersey. All of the candidates endorsed by the local Democratic party appear together in a row, starting with Renee Burgess for state Senate. But other candidates, such as Frank E. McGehee for Assembly and Justin Harris for the Board of County Commissioners, appear on their own, mostly-empty line, as members of another slate.
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