Here's a crazy thing I sorta wondered but never understood until I read this. Andy Kim (congress) won a legal battle to have the ballot in NJ re-designed today.


NJ Ballots have historically been organized in each county with a "County Line"...  The italics are borrowed from a news story...

The county line represents the unique way most New Jersey counties set up their primary ballots, with all the candidates who receive the endorsement of county party leaders grouped together in one column or row. You can see how this looks here:



You see how there is one group of Democrats neatly aligned under President Biden’s name? That’s the county line. And those candidates floating elsewhere on the ballot like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Larry Hamm, and others? We call that running off the line.

Kim is arguing that setting up the ballot this way is bad, echoing progressive critics who have long argued that the county line communicates to a voter that candidates running on the line are legit while those running off the line are not.

New Jersey is the only state where ballots look like this.

I've voted in this state 15 or 20 times...and it always seemed a bit odd...but now I understand why.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
LOL

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
*Nelson laugh*

Kentucky voter photobombs Mitch McConnell

 islander wrote: 
I thought it was a unicorn filled with pot - maybe that was just a Chia Pet®.

 Proclivities wrote: 
And now that we have a shift in power, we should get meaningful immigration reform, sensible tax reform, a balanced budget and a unicorn in every pot right?

At least the ads are finally over.  Months of bombardment, not just on TV (almost every YouTube video I watched in the last six weeks was preceded by a 30-second, Koch-funded, anti-Hagan spot), in what I have heard was the most expensive senatorial race ever.

Voting in November is groovy, man.

 kurtster wrote: 
i'm usually pretty busy in november

i may try december or better yet january

 miamizsun wrote: 
Innit next November ?

yeah just let me know when

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
As RP goes . . .

Term Limits.  Its the only thing left we haven't tried.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 

 aflanigan wrote: 
Not on RP, then?

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
That's the discussion we need to have on a national level, IMO.

 oldviolin wrote: 
I'll buy the beer.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Genesis 2:7