Sponsored by:
Senator BRIAN P. STACK
District 33 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Requires county and municipal clerks to publish unofficial list of all persons who filed nominating petitions for primary election within five hours of deadline to file nominating petitions.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning timely publication of the names of persons who filed primary election nominating petitions and supplementing chapter 23 of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Within five hours after the deadline for filing nominating petitions for candidates to be voted for by the voters of a political party to the county clerk or municipal clerk, as the case may be, the county clerk or municipal clerk, as the case may be, shall publish an unofficial list of the candidates who filed such petitions on the official Internet site of the respective county or municipality.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires county clerks and municipal clerks to publish an unofficial list of the names of all persons who filed nominating petitions for a primary election for a general election within five hours of the deadline to file nominating petitions. Under current law, the deadline for nomination petitions submission for the primary election for the general election is before 4:00 p.m. of the 71st day next preceding the day of the holding of the primary election for the general election. The bill requires the county clerk and the municipal clerk to publish the unofficial list on the official Internet site of the county or municipality.