EAdIElection Administration Index

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: This section requires candidates for public office to file financial disclosures with the NJELECC, but does not address disclosures by election commissioners or senior election staff themselves. COI.1 requires statutory conflict-of-interest disclosure obligations for the commissioners and staff administering elections, not candidates running for office. The section is about candidate transparency, not institutional accountability for election administrators.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Section 19:27-6 addresses the procedural rules for filling congressional vacancies (timing of special primaries and elections, writ requirements), but contains no codified right to judicial review of election-authority decisions, no standing provisions, no timeline for review, and no venue specification. The section is purely procedural for vacancy management, not a structure for accountability mechanisms.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The commission is grounded in statute (N.J. Rev. Stat. § 19:44A-5), not in the New Jersey Constitution. The statutory text establishes the commission's creation, composition, appointment process, and term structure, but the criterion requires constitutional grounding. Statutory creation scores 1 on the ordinal scale, not 2.

The statute mandates multi-branch appointment: the Governor proposes, but the Senate must provide advice and consent. This shared appointment power between executive and legislative branches prevents unilateral control by a single branch. The requirement that no more than two members belong to the same political party further ensures structural balance against capture.

“The members shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate for a term of 3 years”

The statute provides fixed-length terms (3 years for regular appointments, staggered initial terms of 3, 2, and 1 year), statutory protection against early removal (members serve until successors are appointed and qualified), and multi-branch appointment (Governor appoints by and with Senate advice and consent). The staggered cycle prevents any single administration from controlling all four seats simultaneously, and succession-dependent continuity protects against arbitrary displacement.

The statute imposes a clear statutory requirement that no more than two of the four commission members may belong to the same political party, ensuring that the majority cannot come from a single party. Additionally, the prohibition on appointing holders of public or party office reinforces political independence. This satisfies the political-balance structural requirement without reliance on administrative discretion.

“No more than two members shall belong to the same political party, and no person holding a public office or an office in any political party shall be eligible for appointment to the commission.”

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: This section addresses record retention and impoundment authority for mail-in ballots, not budget structure or funding mechanisms. It contains no language regarding election authority funding, budget line items, appropriations, or protection against mid-cycle reallocation. FUND.1 requires statutory establishment of independent funding; this section is procedurally administrative and entirely silent on that dimension.

No matching sections in corpus.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Section 19:44A-11.6 addresses loans for political contributions by candidates and committees, not funding of the election authority or its vendors. It contains no prohibition on foreign-source funding of election administration institutions or infrastructure. The section is categorically outside the scope of FUND.3, which requires statutory bars on foreign funding flowing to the election agency itself.

The statute explicitly mandates that county board office employees and clerks in first-class counties shall be appointed from the 'competitive class of civil service' and that all such employees 'shall hold such employment in the competitive class of civil service.' This provides clear statutory protection for career staff from political removal, satisfying the merit-based employment safeguard central to STAFF.1.

“all of whom when appointed by such county boards shall be appointed from the competitive class of civil service, provided, however, that any employee now serving and who has not been appointed from the competitive class of civil service shall be in the classified service of the civil service upon passage of this act. The compensation of the clerk of the county board of elections in counties of the first class shall be in an amount recommended by the county board of elections and subject to the approval of the board of chosen freeholders of the county affected, provided, however, that such compensation shall be not less than $5,000.00 per annum. The compensation of such office employees shall be recommended by the county board and approved by the board of chosen freeholders. All persons now employed by the board in the competitive class of civil service and such other employees now performing assigned duties shall hold such employment in the competitive class of civil service.”

This section mandates training only for organizational treasurers of State political party committees and legislative leadership committees—a narrow subset of campaign finance officials. Treasurers of other political committees and continuing political committees are permitted but not required to be trained. The statute references training content and frequency in a separate statute (P.L.1973, c.83 § 6(g)), but this excerpt does not define content or frequency. Critically, STAFF.2 addresses election officials and poll workers (frontline voting infrastructure), not campaign finance treasurers, making this section outside the criterion's scope.

No matching sections in corpus.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Section 19:61-5 establishes a free-access information system for voters regarding mail-in and overseas ballot status. It does not address voting-equipment certification, evaluators, timelines, public-comment procedures, or any vendor oversight mechanism. The section is entirely focused on ballot-status transparency, not equipment certification process.

No matching sections in corpus.

No matching sections in corpus.