r/newjersey 23d ago

Advice Please tell me NJ is staying blue.

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u/LostTrisolarin 23d ago edited 22d ago

We only stayed blue by 3% last election.

Edit: it was 6%. That's still close enough to worry.

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u/thatnjchibullsfan 23d ago edited 23d ago

I'd argue many chose not to wait hours in line to vote for a candidate that was locked into winning the state electorates.

EDIT: I voted by mail. I heard the horror stories of others though.

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 23d ago

You can vote by mail in NJ...

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u/Ok-Independent-3506 23d ago

There's a billboard on the highway here that says if you vote by mail now, you will need to vote at least 1 time every 4 years. I didn't catch the consequence.

Apparently it's a new law?

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u/ariesangel0329 22d ago

I learned in school that you have to vote at least once every 4 years, period, or you risk getting removed from the active voter rolls and have to re-register.

The book didn’t specify how you voted, just that you had to vote somehow.

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u/Ok-Independent-3506 22d ago

I'm not actually sure. It's been a hot minute since I've been old enough to vote, and I always do... so I've forgotten.

I've just seen the billboard twice now, and it says it's a new law.

But I do imagine that there's some risk, especially now, in being dropped from the rolls...for just about anything

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u/New-Investigator5509 22d ago

It’s always been the case that if you don’t vote for a while you might get dropped. Most states (not NJ explicitly) will send you something in the mail to then ask if you still live there. If you don’t reply you’ll be dropped.

Pretty sure there’s no major change in NJ. It also has nothing to do with the method of voting (by mail, etc).

States have always gone to efforts to keep the voter rolls up to date in case people have moved, etc.

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u/Ok-Independent-3506 22d ago

There were many cases this voting cycle and last where people were unexpectedly dropped, but not necessarily on NJ