New Jersey Government Files Brief in Support of New Jersey’s Closed Primary System

On December 3, attorneys for the New Jersey Secretary of State filed a 21-page brief in the Third Circuit in Balsam v Guadagno, 14-3882. This is the case in which some New Jersey voters argue that New Jersey violates the U.S. and New Jersey Constitutions when it holds partisan primaries and does not permit anyone but party members to vote in such primaries.

The state points that any voter may switch parties as late as 55 days before the primary, and an independent voter may join the party whose primary he or she wants to vote in on primary day itself. The state also says, “Unaffiliated voters in New Jersey possess the same opportunity to participate in the electoral process as party-members.” The state’s brief mentions that ballot access for candidates running outside the two major parties is easy.


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New Jersey Government Files Brief in Support of New Jersey’s Closed Primary System — 3 Comments

  1. 1. All voters nominate — as in top 2 primary systems.

    2. SOME voters nominate – all the rest –
    i.e. the voters FACTION with or without other FACTIONS and/or independents.

    The SCOTUS MORONS messed up the above in the 2000 Donkey case — per usual since MORON lawyers are doing election law cases since 1968.

  2. “…and an independent voter may join the party whose primary he or she wants to vote in on primary day itself.” Yet, if an ‘independent’ voter decides to register in the Green Party, or the Libertarian Party, etc., there is no primary for them.

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