New Jersey county ordered to fix ‘unlawful ballot design’ that favored Democrats

Washington Examiner ^ | October 13, 2025 4:37 pm | Kaelan Deese

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A New Jersey county that could play a decisive role in the next month’s statewide elections will be reprinting its general election ballots after the Republican National Committee successfully argued that a ballot redesign unlawfully favored Democrats.

The dispute began late last month when Democratic County Clerk James Hogan replaced Gloucester County’s legally required party-column ballot format, where each political party’s candidates appear under a single vertical heading, with an office-block layout that grouped all candidates for each race together, regardless of party.

Republicans argued the change undermined their visibility on the ballot and blunted their “Vote Column A” campaign after winning the position of Column A in the county’s ballot drawing. On Friday, a state appellate court ruled that Hogan’s layout violated the law and ordered reprints of ballots in time for early voting later this month.

Voting booths set up in rows on Election Day. (Photo credit: iStock)

The panel overturned an earlier ruling by Superior Court Judge Benjamin Telsey, who had agreed the design was illegal but allowed the ballots to stand, citing possible voter confusion. The appellate court said those concerns were unsupported by evidence and ordered new, column-style ballots for in-person voting.

[butlerweave]

The democrats want all the cheats ,LOL

[j.havenfarm]

They’re always working g to corners, the wretched bastards

[Political Junkie Too]

Superior Court Judge Benjamin Telsey, who had agreed the design was illegal but allowed the ballots to stand...

Of course... as opposed to the federal district courts that know that President Trump's actions are legal but block them anyway.

-PJ

[paulcissa]

After the infamous Torricelli > Lautenberg switcheroo, anything goes in NJ. We define political corruption for the rest of the states.

[A strike]

Superior Court Judge Benjamin Telsey who had agreed design was illegal but allowed the ballots to stand. What a Total Piece of Schiff !!

[frank ballenger]

Cartoon of Trump as Hitler and the words “Trump likes this bad one” next to the GOP choice on the ballot was....controversial. /S

Dem voters can read at the 4th or 5th grade levels in some cases and could figure it out enough to always vote Dem.

Note:
“Approximately 43 million U.S. adults have low literacy skills, representing about one in five (21%) adults. This is based on the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey, which defines low literacy as not being able to perform tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences. Some sources cite a higher figure of over 130 million adults reading below a sixth-grade level.”

Remember George Carlin’s line?

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that”.

[nwrep]

So the low IQ conservatives at the Washington Examiner decide to post a stock image of a cardboard box instead of the actual ballot in question?

[Libloather]

[Svartalfiar]

Ballots shouldn’t include political party at all. They should list each position voting, with incumbents listed first and all challengers in reverse alphabetical order by last name.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ballots shouldn’t include political party at all. They should list each position voting, with incumbents listed first and all challengers in reverse alphabetical order by last name.

Then ranked order voting is your wet dream.