Ballot Access News had the following post, “New Jersey Socialist Party Will Fight for Ability of Voters to Register Socialist”.  Take a look at this excerpt:

Some years later the Conservative Party of New Jersey filed a similar lawsuit, and the state then conceded and agreed to let voters register into the Conservative Party. But in all these years, the state has never amended its statute to update its policy on how a group may qualify to let voters register into such a group. The state has also informed the Socialist Party that it is not entitled to relief, so the only option seems to be a lawsuit.

New Jersey and New York rank the worst states for confusing ballots that harm insurgent smaller parties. Jerry Goldfeder, one of the leading experts on New York election law, has this column in CityLand, advocating improvements in New York state election law. He calls for easier ballot access. He also calls for easing the restrictive law that does not permit voters to change parties within eleven months of a primary. This is by far the most restrictive such law in the nation.

Unfortunately, Goldfeder did not call for improving New York ballot format. New York has the nation’s most confusing ballot, followed closely by the ballot used in most counties in New Jersey. Both New York and New Jersey ballots hide “unimportant” candidates in far corners of the ballot, where many voters don’t even notice their names. 

Do you think that voters should be allowed to register Socialist Party?  Give your view in the comment section!