Bill > A5370

Introduced Session

This bill extends the early voting period for primary elections in New Jersey and extends the deadline to appoint a challenger for an election. This bill extends the deadline to appoint a challenger from the second Tuesday preceding any election to the third Tuesday preceding any election. This bill extends the early voting period for all primary elections in New Jersey to start 7 calendar days before the election. This includes non-presidential primary elections and presidential primary elections. Currently, the early voting period for a non-presidential primary election and a presidential primary election starts, respectively, on the 4th and 6th calendar day before the election. This bill starts the early voting period on the 7th calendar day before the non-presidential primary and the presidential primary election. Under current law, the early voting period for any election ends on the second calendar day before the election. Therefore, under the bill, the early voting period would consist of six days for primary elections. The bill appropriates from the General Fund to the Department of State the sum of $6,000,000 for the purposes of the bill.

AI Summary

Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)*,  Gabriel Rodriguez (D)*,  Shama Haider (D), 

Substituted by S3990 (1R) (on 02/27/2025)

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