If you’ve seen one county, you’ve seen one county.
With county clerks under a court order to use office block ballots for the June Democratic primary election, a review of sample ballots from across the state shows that the era of ballot uniformity remains a work in progress.
County clerks still have considerable discretion in how they design ballots, and are hardly identical.
Ballots vary in size and direction; some office block ballots are printed horizontally, and some vertically. Some use numbers, and others don’t; in Camden County, each candidate is assigned a unique number.
And there are some places where, if you close your left eye and squint really hard and tilt your head just so, it looks like the line lives.
