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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 Bidenâs name? Thatâs 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.

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Posted: Nov 6, 2018 - 3:15pm
Me voting in 2016 vs. me voting in 2018:

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Posted: Nov 6, 2018 - 1:14pm
Red_Dragon wrote: Nelson laugh LOL

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Posted: Nov 6, 2018 - 1:09pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Kentucky voter photobombs Mitch McConnell Nelson laugh

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Posted: Nov 6, 2018 - 1:05pm
Kentucky voter photobombs Mitch McConnell

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 9:04am

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 6:50am
islander 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? I thought it was a unicorn filled with pot - maybe that was just a Chia Pet®.

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 6:46am

Proclivities wrote:

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.

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?

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 6:42am
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.

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 6:15am
Voting in November is groovy, man.

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 5:56am
kurtster wrote: Innit next November ? i'm usually pretty busy in november i may try december or better yet january

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 5:24am
miamizsun wrote: yeah just let me know when Innit next November ?

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 4:20am
yeah just let me know when

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Posted: Feb 28, 2014 - 9:41am
Red_Dragon wrote: Not on RP, then? As RP goes . . .

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Posted: Feb 28, 2014 - 9:32am
Term Limits. Its the only thing left we haven't tried.

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Posted: Feb 28, 2014 - 9:30am
Red_Dragon wrote: Not on RP, then?

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Posted: Feb 28, 2014 - 9:29am
aflanigan wrote: That's the discussion we need to have on a national level, IMO. Not on RP, then?

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Posted: Feb 28, 2014 - 9:28am
Red_Dragon wrote: So, how do we fix it? That's the discussion we need to have on a national level, IMO.

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Posted: Feb 28, 2014 - 9:22am
oldviolin wrote: Genesis 2:7 I'll buy the beer.

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Posted: Feb 28, 2014 - 9:16am
Red_Dragon wrote: breathe... Genesis 2:7

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