New Jersey has a new primary ballot design now that Gov ... getting rid of the long-standing county line design. The county line grouped together party-endorsed candidates and put outsiders ...

The court order brings another twist to the legal battle over New Jersey’s unique primary ballot design known as the county line, where candidates backed by county parties are placed in a single ...

The bill requires primary election ballots to be arranged ... Salem and Sussex counties do not use the county line design. That order was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ...

“The current primary election ballot design scheme represents an unconstitutional ... own slate of candidates to compete with the county line, are sometimes relegated to obscure parts of the ...

Anger over the “county line” ballots has been growing for years in New Jersey, the only state that uses the design ... are facing primary challenges in the state’s New York City suburbs ...

Both Atlantic and Hunterdon counties told the Washington Examiner that if a future court order does not prevent it, they will revert back to using the county line in their primary ballot design.

A recent study by a Rutgers University professor found the line gave congressional candidates an advantage of up to 38 percentage points. “The design of New Jersey’s primary ballots is a ...

The lawsuit was filed by Democratic Rep. Andy Kim and others seeking to stop the state's so-called county line system of primary ballot design. The outcome could determine whether that ballot ...

This was the first primary where Democratic ballots couldn’t use the “county line” design, which lets county party organizations group their endorsed candidates for various offices together ...