New Jersey Socialist Party Sues to Enable Voters to Register as Socialist Party Members

24 June 2013

By Richard Winger
Ballot Access News

"New Jersey is one of the 31 states that asks voters on the voter registration form to choose a party, or independent status. However, New Jersey has a very strange policy to determine which parties voters can join, on voter registration forms. For the last 93 years, the only qualified parties in New Jersey have been the Democratic and Republican Parties. Until 2001, no one could register in New Jersey except as a Democrat, a Republican, or an independent. In 2001 the New Jersey State Appeals Court ruled that voters must be allowed to register into parties that are not qualified, but which regularly place nominees on the ballot. Unqualified parties do that by submitting petitions for their nominees; the ballots contain the names of those unqualified parties, next to the names of their nominees...."

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New Jersey Democrats Withdraw Challenge to Minor Party Gubernatorial Candidates’ Petitions

16 June 2013

By Krzysztof Lesiak
Independent Political Report 

"In addition to Republican incumbent Chris Christie and Democratic state senator Barbara Buono, there seven minor party candidates running in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election on November 5, 2013, six of them on the ballot and the seventh mounting a write-in campaign.... Maynor Moreno  -  Socialist Party NJ  -  (state college student ineligible to be governor due to age)  -  write-in...."

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