Jim Beach Archives - New Jersey Globe

D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

December 5, 2025 11:39 pm

The three-week congressional sprint to the holidays has begun, and the question on everyone’s mind is: can anyone figure out how to avert disaster on soon-to-expire Obamacare subsidies? Several competing proposals on that subject came out this week, one with...

Kim’s battle against N.J. comptroller bill goes national

December 5, 2025 4:27 pmDecember 7, 2025 5:05 pm

It’s rare for testimony in a New Jersey State Senate hearing to make national news, but State Sen. Jim Beach (D-Oaklyn) found a way. In a Monday committee hearing on a controversial bill that would hobble the state comptroller’s office...

Beach’s Libertarian opponent in LD6 booted off ballot

June 13, 2023 2:08 pm

State Sen. Jim Beach (D-Voorhees) will not have to face a Libertarian candidate in his safely Democratic district this November, with Administrative Law Judge Judith Lieberman ruling today that Matthew Asman did not collect enough valid signatures to appear on...

Fourteen legislative seats won’t have two-party opposition on primary ballot

April 4, 2023 5:00 pm

256 candidates have successfully filed for the New Jersey State Legislature, but they’re not evenly distributed across the state’s 40 legislative districts; 14 seats – five in the Senate and nine in the Assembly – won’t have candidates from both...

Murphy signs bill allowing election boards to pick drop box placement

April 9, 2021 4:29 pmApril 9, 2021 6:36 pm

County election boards will be allowed to decide the placement of ballot drop boxes under a bill Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Friday. The measure allows county election boards to decide by simple majority vote the placement of secure...

Murphy says threat of prison will stop election officials from releasing early results

September 2, 2020 4:04 pmSeptember 3, 2020 1:46 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy isn’t prepared to call for county party chairs to resign from their seats on county election boards over a provision allowing the panels to begin canvassing ballots 10 days before election day. “I haven’t thought through who...

Election officials can count ballots 10 days before polls close

September 1, 2020 1:43 pm

New Jersey’s election officials will be able to start counting mail-in ballots 10 days before election day under a law Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law last week. The provision, first reported by Politico New Jersey Tuesday, was added into...