Donald J. Trump for president, the Republican National Committee and the New Jersey Republican State Commission brought the lawsuit the court asked for Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order to go ahead introduces the new rules aimed at giving voters the option to vote in person during the coronavirus pandemic.
The lawsuit alleges that the executive branch uses the authority of the legislature to decide when and how elections are held. It also claims that the “system qualifies for the right to vote of citizens” and that “fraudulent and invalid votes remove the votes of honest citizens and decipher their right to vote contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment.”
CNN has reached out to Governor and Secretary of State Tahesha Way’s committee for comment.
Due to the pandemic, postal voting is becoming an increasingly popular option, as many voters prefer not to wait in long lines for polling stations. New Jersey will be the ninth state, along with Washington, DC, to send all registered voters to the November election.
Murphy told CNN Friday that New Jersey expanded the model of voting they used during the primary.
“We sent votes to people who were registered in one of the parties. We sent applications by e-mail to those who were not. And we also provided personal voting capacity of at least 50% in each province and “At least one location in each community. It was a success. Not perfect, but overwhelmingly a success,” he said.
Murphy also said the state has learned some lessons since the primary and will “have more presence of safe dropboxes, make sure there is physical in the voting capacity, and because it relates to post-in-votes, it is good news in a general election, it does not matter what party you belong to, everyone gets a vote. “
For those who want to vote in person, Murphy said they’ll do what we call ‘provisional voting’ because people do not necessarily know at the polling station whether or not you have already emailed a poll. . That’s what we did in the primary. A little more cumbersome, but it works. “
CNN’s Elizabeth Hartfield, Paul LeBlanc, Joe Sutton and Mirna Alsharif contributed to this report.
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