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Nine election bills advance out of Senate committee

June 23, 2022 6:06 pmJune 23, 2022 10:06 pm

Nine election bills advanced through the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee today which would enact a variety of changes concerning mail-in balloting, poll workers, overseas voters, ballot privacy, early voting locations, campaign finance, and police at...

Assembly Judiciary Committee advances Coughlin election reform package

June 9, 2022 5:14 pmJune 9, 2022 5:18 pm

The Assembly Judiciary Committee today advanced a package of election reform bills spearheaded by Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin (D-Woodbridge); the seven bills in the package previously cleared the Assembly State and Local Government Committee last month. One of the more contentious...

Likely booted from Hudson line, Jimenez is defiant

June 6, 2022 10:43 am

Assemblywoman Angelica Jimenez (D-West New York), who will likely lose the Hudson County Democratic endorsement for re-election in 2023 due to a larger game of political musical chairs, has signaled defiance while not making any firm commitments about what she...

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...