Here is the brief filed by the D-R Party in the lawsuit over whether the Democratic and Republican primary turnout was so low in June 2014 that, if state law were to be followed, those parties would not be entitled to have party columns on the general election ballot. The case is D-R Organization of New Jersey v Guadagno, Superior Court, Mercer County, Appellate Division, A-206-14.
This is not the claim being made. New Jersey’s law regarding ballot columns was written when New Jersey had annual elections for the general assembly (lower house). A party would have to meet the vote test in the primary, based on the general election the previous November.
The last election for the general assembly was in November 2013. Since there were no general assembly candidates on the primary ballot in 2014, it was impossible for a party to qualify for the 2014 general election ballot.
How many seconds until the robot gerrymander hacks in the NJ legislature fix all defects ???
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.