New Jersey Legislature passes vote-by-mail bill to undermine Trump lawsuit
The New Jersey Legislature on Thursday voted to make the state’s November election primarily vote-by-mail — a repeat of what Gov. Phil Murphy already mandated and a move meant to head off a challenge by President Donald Trump’s campaign.
The Trump campaign last week filed a federal lawsuit against Murphy’s Aug. 14 executive order, claiming, among other things, that the governor ordered the election to be conducted mostly through mail-in ballots in “direct usurpation of the legislature’s authority.”
“It’s going to undermine the lawsuit,” Assembly member Andrew Zwicker (D-Middlesex), a co-sponsor, said in a phone interview.
Context: Murphy’s executive order requires that all active registered voters in the state be sent mail-in ballots, similar to what was done for the July 7 primary. Counties are required to have at least 50 percent of their polling places open so voters can either cast provisional ballots in person or hand poll workers their mail-in ballot.
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