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Ten election bills cleared an Assembly committee. What do they do?

May 13, 2022 5:51 pmMay 16, 2022 12:41 am

A raft of ten bills concerning New Jersey’s elections, including seven spearheaded by Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin (D-Woodbridge), passed the Assembly State and Local Government Committee yesterday. If ultimately signed into law, the bills could make important changes to how...

The new legislative map won’t immediately do much to increase minority representation

February 25, 2022 4:28 pm

Nearly three weeks ago, the two partisan delegations on the New Jersey Legislative Apportionment Commission released their first proposals for the state’s new legislative map. Each one modestly obeyed the standards laid out by commission tiebreaker Philip Carchman, but both...

Groups want probe into late-arriving voting machines in Newark

June 11, 2021 12:41 pmJune 11, 2021 12:48 pm

The failure to deliver 33 voting machines in predominately Black wards of Newark before the polls opened on Tuesday have led 20 voting rights advocacy groups and grass roots organizations to call for a thorough investigation into a delay. The...

League of Women Voters joins progressives in challenge to organization lines

June 1, 2021 11:09 amJune 1, 2021 11:09 am

The League of Women Voters Of New Jersey is opposing a move by Attorney General Gurbir Grewal to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of organization lines in Democratic and Republican primaries. The amicus brief for the LWVNJ and...

Assembly clears early voting bill

March 1, 2021 2:29 pmMarch 1, 2021 2:44 pm

The Assembly in a 58-11 vote with one abstention advanced a bill allowing in-person early voting in the Garden State Monday. The Senate last week approved early voting by a margin of 27-10, but the bill will return to that...

Ballot drop box placement bill tabled after testimony

January 14, 2021 3:52 pm

The Senate State Government Committee pulled a bill that would have allowed county election boards to decide the placement of all ballot drop boxes after an advocate voiced concerns that the bill did nothing to prevent unequal placements. The measure,...

Assembly panel advances early voting bill

October 19, 2020 11:50 amOctober 19, 2020 11:52 am

An Assembly panel on Monday approved a bill that would allow New Jerseyans to cast ballots in-person for two weeks ahead of election day. The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker (D-South Brunswick), would allow two weeks early in-person voting...