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Little by little, perpetual vote-by-mail list reshapes New Jersey's off-year elections

Nikita Biryukov

November 30, 2023 |

New Jersey Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, New Jersey

Thanks to a 2019 law, New Jersey voters who request a mail-in ballot one time continue to receive them in perpetuity for future elections without needing to submit another request. The state has seen mail-in voting rates increase in off-year elections since the perpetual vote-by-mail list was created, with 22 percent of votes cast in 2021 attributed to mail-in ballots compared to 16.7 percent in 2019.

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