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Lawsuit Challenges Superdelegate Ballot Stuffing in New Jersey County
Ocean County “Anti-Corruption Democrats” have filed a federal lawsuit against the county Democratic committee and its leaders challenging the legality of the party’s endorsement vote, along with an al ...
20 May, 2016
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New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez Indicted
A New Jersey grand jury indicted the senior senator from New Jersey on Wednesday. Democrat Bob Menendez is the subject of an ongoing federal investigation regarding whether he improperly advocated on ...
01 Apr, 2015
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Closed New Jersey Primary Produces Little Surprises, Low Turnout
On Tuesday’s closed primary elections in New Jersey, where unaffiliated voters were locked out of the process, party affiliates turned up in low numbers to elect their candidates. As a result, no surp ...
04 Jun, 2014
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Ahead of Primary, Independents in New Jersey Fight for Right to Vote
As New Jersey voters prepare to vote in the state's primary on Tuesday, the dynamics of the state's primary system comes into sharp focus.Voter turnout was already very low in 2013 as the Garden State ...
02 Jun, 2014
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Media Picks Up New Jersey Lawsuit Challenging Partisan Primaries
On March 5, 2014, the coalition EndPartisanship.org filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, challenging the constitutionality of partisan primaries. The suit argues that ever ...
21 Mar, 2014
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Congressman Rush Holt's Retirement Sparks Fierce Primary in New Jersey
Year after year, his campaign slogan read, “my Congressman IS a rocket scientist.” A nuclear physicist and former college professor, Rush Holt, the eight-term congressman from New Jersey’s 12th Distri ...
25 Feb, 2014
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NJ Voters Spend $100 Million on Elections They Can't Participate In
Public funding of political party activities is certainly not a new concept in the United States. In fact, the idea was floated as early as 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt. However, electoral sys ...
20 Feb, 2014
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New Jersey Spends Nearly $100 Per Voter in 2013 Primary Elections
Much has been made of the cost of New Jersey’s special senatorial election this past year, which saw Cory Booker elected to replace Frank Lautenberg as the Garden State's second representative to the ...
19 Nov, 2013
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Dismal 24% Turnout in New Jersey Senate Race Sets New Record Low
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW9qW-7WETo When Cory Booker became the newest member of Congress last week after winning New Jersey’s special senatorial election, he joined a legislative body that was ...
23 Oct, 2013
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Voters Forced to Choose between Lesser of Two Evils in NJ Senate Race
New Jersey’s special Senate election, one of the most controversial and high profile races in the country, is now nearing its much-anticipated conclusion. In less than 24 hours, Garden State voters w ...
14 Oct, 2013
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