However, the legal fight over the so-called county line continues.
A voter and her child enter a voting booth at a polling site in New Jersey. By April 5, election officials must prepare ballot designs for printing for the June primary. | Seth Wenig/APThe U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied a request from county clerks in New Jersey to block a lower court’s decision that would eliminate the state’s unique ballot design for the June Democratic primary.that U.S.
The expedited briefing schedule gives county clerks another shot to overturn Quraishi’s preliminary injunction. However, election officials in the state are stuck for now with designing office block ballots for the Democratic primary, which groups candidates together by the office they are seeking.election deadlines are approaching. By April 5, for example, election officials must prepare ballot designs for printing for the June primary.
Kim filed the lawsuit in late February, when New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy was still in the Democratic primary for Senate. At the time, Murphy had the county line in a majority of the state since she had the support of Democratic Party leaders. Every county party has a different process for awarding the line, with some allowing hundreds of low-level party officials to vote by secret ballot in conventions while in other counties, a single party boss decides the favorable ballot placement.
And in the House race to succeed Kim, Assemblymember Herb Conaway had the county line in the entire district over his top Democratic competitor, Assemblymember Carol Murphy. The preliminary injunction erases that advantage for Conaway.
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