New Jersey Policy Perspective has just released a study by Julia Sass Rubin, showing how New Jersey primary ballot design tilts the results. The paper does not cover general election ballots, but almost all counties in New Jersey have the same type of flaw in general elections. Democratic and Republican nominees have their own party column, in the left part of the ballot; everyone else lacks a party column and all the minor party and independent candidates are jumbled together in columns without headings.