A high-profile lawsuit questions New Jersey's 'county-line' ballot system amid a yearslong push to remove the county line from ballots.
unique ballots have come under scrutiny for decades for claims of voter suppression and manipulation. Now a high-profile lawsuit and a surprisingly competitiveThe county line places party-backed candidates in one row or column with other candidates placed somewhere else on the ballot in what is sometimes called “ballot Siberia.” Studies confirm that candidates in the county line are more likely to be elected.
Right now NJ allows a handful of party elites to give their handpicked candidates preferential placement on the ballot. This is a deeply unfair advantage that disenfranchises voters by applying undue influence and suppressing choice of candidates.“We have a system in New Jersey that allows a few party elites to weaponize the ballot for their own purposes,” Kim told the.
Despite New Jersey’s Democratic lean in statewide races, the county line affects candidates of both parties, hurting or helping them gain office., a nonpartisan grassroots organization, is working across the state to bring greater transparency and accountability to state and local governments. “Political candidates who fail to secure the endorsement of these party bosses and political machines have virtually no chance of winning an election,” the Rutgers report read.Three years later, using the same legal team from the previous lawsuit, Kim brought the topic into the national spotlight in his“The broken politics in New Jersey needs to end once and for all,” Kim said.
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