If you voted for Joe Biden, here’s who you really voted for

While Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had their names on the ballot this year, nobody in New Jersey actually voted for them.

Instead, more than 2.6 million Biden/Harris voters cast their votes for 14 electors pledged to Biden  who were picked by his campaign in consultation with the New Jersey Democratic State Committee.

Those electors will be in Trenton at 3 PM on December 14 to take part in a meeting of the Electoral College.   That’s when New Jersey, 49 other states and the District of Columbia, will actually vote to elect the next President and Vice President of the United States.

The 2020 Biden/Harris electors: First Lady Tammy Murphy; former Murphy chief counsel Matt Platkin; Essex County Democratic Chairman LeRoy Jones, Jr.; Essex County Freeholder President Brendan Gill; Saily Avelenda, the executive director of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee; former Neptune Mayor Michael Beson; Edward Kologi, a Linden attorney and former councilman; Kelly Ganges, the chief of staff to Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes; Hackensack Democratic Municipal Chair Lynne Hurwitz; Francesca Giarratana, the chief of the Hudson County Division of Planning; Roberta Karpinecz, a Democratic State Committeewoman from Somerset County; Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s district director, Jill Kotner; and former Paterson Deputy Mayor Derya Taskin;

The fourteen electors from New Jersey will meet in Trenton on December 14 to cast their ballots for Biden and Harris.

New Jersey is one of 17 states that technically permits faultless elections, which means any of the fourteen theoretically pledged to Biden and Harris are free to pick their own candidates.  The other 33 states, and th District of Columbia, either binds electors to the presidential candidate they initially agreed to support or fires them.

But this group is comprised of party loyalists, and none of the New Jersey electors are expected to defect.