Nuzhat Chowdhury is a lawyer with the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. Isabel Molina is an associate with the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters. Fifty-eight years ago this week ...

New Jersey also restored voting rights for the formerly incarcerated, allowing them to reintegrate as full citizens of their communities. This commendable progress by our legislature has made New ...

New Jersey’s legislation requires each of the state’s 21 counties to open three to seven polling places for machine voting in the days before an election. For the Nov. 2 contest, there would ...

New Jersey Democratic lawmakers have their sights on another voting rights expansion, this time for 17-year-olds. Hackensack Council candidates raise $328,000 for May 13 election. See who donated ...

By Brett Edkins, Stand Up America New Jersey is known for many things – great pizza, great bagels, great beaches, and the best people. We pride ourselves on being the third state in the country ...

Beginning in November, New Jersey's 6.5 million voters will be able to cast ballots on machines up to 10 days before the election. ... New Jersey puts stronger voting rights into law.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This page is part of a comprehensive guide to state voting rights across the U.S. and in Puerto Rico. In recent years, New Jersey has allowed online voter registration and restored ...

The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New Jersey will reinforce the right of any person to participate in government elections free of intimidation and interference,” Reynolds-Jackson said. “We must ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

Lawmakers in New Jersey have sent the state’s Democratic governor two election bills that together would expand voting rights for residents in the state, as GOP-led states move to restrict ...

There are broad similarities among the various state voting rights acts under consideration and the New York and Connecticut laws. They all give voters and groups a “private right of action” to ...