Fair Ballot Alliance NJ

Are you one of the 65% of NJ Voters who oppose 

giving one candidate preferential placement on the ballot?

Help us do something about it!

Many voters in New Jersey do not know that we are the only state in the country to use a confusing, undemocratic form of ballot design called “the County Line.”1 New Jersey party insiders use it to design ballots that give their chosen candidates for U.S. House and Senate an average 38 percentage point advantage by grouping them together in a preferred column or row on the ballot.2 

1 Rubin, Julia Sass (2020, June 29) "Toeing the Line: New Jersey Primary Ballots Enable Party Insiders to Pick Winners," New Jersey Policy Perspective. https://www.njpp.org/publications/report/toeing-the-line-new-jersey-primary-ballots-enable-party-insiders-to-pick-winners/ 

2 Rubin, Julia Sass (2023) "The Impact of New Jersey’s County Line Primary Ballots on Election Outcomes, Politics, and Policy," Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy: Vol. 48: Iss. 1, Article 3. Available at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/shlj/vol48/iss1/3. All bullet points marked by red X's are also from this source.