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.

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 ...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday signed into law a redesign of primary ballots, formally ending an entrenched system that gave unique influence to the state’s party bosses but faced an ...

The controversial ballot design for New Jersey elections benefitted party-backed candidates over challengers, and was rejected after US Senate hopeful, Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ), filed suit.

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in a letter to the judge that he sees the current New Jersey ballot design as "unconstitutional" and doesn't intend to defend it in court.

The Assembly Select Committee on Ballot Design presented and heard testimony this week about legislation related to how ...

A bill to redesign New Jersey's election ballots ― grouping candidates by office instead of the so-called "county line" ― was unanimously cleared out of the state Senate Judiciary Committee on ...

Andy Kim still wants to end New Jersey’s ballot design even as he stands to benefit from it. A lawsuit to abolish "the line" will go forward.

TRENTON, N.J. — 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 c… ...

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.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday signed into law a redesign of primary ballots, formally ending an entrenched system that gave unique influence to the state’s party bosses but faced an ...