On August 25, a New Jersey voter filed a challenge to the petition of the New Jersey Green Party for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. It needed 2.000 signatures and contained 2,434. A state court will adjudicate whether the petition has enough valid signatures.
This is the second petition the party submitted this year for New Jersey governor and lieutenant governor. The first petition was not challenged. But then the gubernatorial candidate withdrew for health reasons, so under a unique New Jersey law, the party had to file an entirely new petition.
“A New Jersey voter”, aka on the behalf of the New Jersey Democratic Party, because obvious.
Once a party becomes ballot qualified, it should be able to place its candidates on the ballot any way it chooses. It shouldn’t have to submit signatures to the state if it chooses not to do that.
unique New Jersey law = ONE MORE 14-1 EP CL VIOLATION ???
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In New Jersey, a candidate of an unqualified party is essentially running as an independent. In other states if an independent candidate withdraws they can not be replaced. New Jersey is odd in permitting a replacement by a new petition.
@WZ,
There should be no qualified parties. That is the root of the problem.
Other states that let candidates on independent petitions be replaced, besides New Jersey, are Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, and West Virginia.