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If an election official gives you false or inaccurate information on signature minimums for a Petition, should that same election official be allowed to reject your Petition because it fails to meet the number of signatures that are more than the candidates were told were necessaty to get on the bal...

Two recent Hudson County ballot-access disputes raise a basic question for voters and candidates: when a person asks the County Clerk’s Office how many petition signatures are required to run for office, should they be able to rely on the answer when they turn in their Petition with the stated requi...

Two Harrison candidates have filed separate but related lawsuits against the Hudson County Clerk’s Office, claiming they were kept off the November General Election ballot after relying on incorrect signature information allegedly provided by the same office that later rejected their petitions.

The...