PHILADELPHIA (AP) — New Jersey county clerks have withdrawn their appeals to a federal court ruling requiring them to redraw primary election ballots that some argued favored candidates backed by the state’s Democratic Party. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals based in Philadelphia dismissed the appeals on Friday in response to the clerks’ action. U.S. Judge Zahid Quraishi had ordered Democrats to scrap a ballot that listed party-endorsed candidates together in a bracketed group on the ballot — commonly called the county line — while listing others outside the bracket. New Jersey is the only state to set its primary ballots in this way. Democratic Rep. Andy Kim filed the lawsuit as part of his bid for the Senate seat held by indicted Sen. Bob Menendez, who said he would not run in the primary. Republicans will not be affected by Quraishi’s order; the judge said it applies only to Democrats and only to the June 4 election. |
Electrifying Hangzhou Asian Games with green energyRow erupts over bizarre claim William Shakespeare's works could have been written by a WOMANFuturistic scene of robots taking over backbreaking farm jobs on horizonChina's Zhou to continue in F1 in 2024China's Chen/Jia into 4th women's doubles final at badminton worldsWhy are young Chinese streamlining, personalizing their wedding ceremonies?Hangzhou ready to host smart Asian GamesAction movie The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon stays atop China's box office chartGermany's Scholz calls for fair competition and warns against dumping during China visitFuturistic scene of robots taking over backbreaking farm jobs on horizon