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.
New Jersey parties that already sued, and therefore have such rights, are Conservative, Constitution, Green, Libertarian, Natural Law, and Reform. It is odd that New Jersey continues to let all of these parties have registration rights, because the Conservative Party of New Jersey and the Natural Law Party of New Jersey have not had any candidates on the ballot in New Jersey in several years.
Let’s hope they can produce real change in NJ (in the context of the lawsuit, NOT as elected officials! LOL)
Sue for BIG $$$$ DAMAGES — to bankrupt the EVIL govt morons involved.
I hope someday to register as a Socialist because currently I am registered as a Democrat.
It was the only choice I had at the time–or Republican. (I thought of the Democrats as the lesser of the two evils.)