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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