27 September 2013
By Richard Winger
Ballot Access News
"On July 1, 2013, the New Jersey Socialist Party filed a lawsuit in
state court over voter registration. The state lets people register
into certain unqualified parties, but it does not let voters register
into the Socialist Party. The state has no objective procedures to
decide which parties have voter registration rights. Instead, the
state’s policy is to force any particular party to sue. Then, that
party gets registration rights.
The Socialist Party case is Noble v State, Mercer County Superior
Court, c86-13. The case has a status conference call on November 14.
It is hoped that one result of this lawsuit is not only to let people
register as members of the Socialist Party, but to nudge the state into
setting forth objective standards to determine which parties can have
voter registration rights...."
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