New Jersey's independent, gubernatorial candidate, Chris Dagget, is on a roll. ... But Daggett faces a ballot problem. Not ballot access itself ... he's on the ballot ... It's ballot design. The ballot features the Democratic and Republican candidates first -- the order depends on a coin toss -- and the independent candidates, second. Pointing to political science literature on ballot order, Daggett claims that the placement of independent candidates below the major party candidates is plainly unconstitutional. The science isn't as clear cut: ballot order does, in certain low-information races, seem to influence voter decisions, but it competes with...
