New Jersey Legislature passes vote-by-mail bill to undermine Trump lawsuit
The New Jersey Legislature on Thursday voted to make the state’s November election primarily vote-by-mail — a repeat of what Gov. Phil Murphy already mandated and a move meant to head off a challenge by President Donald Trump’s campaign.
The Trump campaign last week filed a federal lawsuit against Murphy’s Aug. 14 executive order, claiming, among other things, that the governor ordered the election to be conducted mostly through mail-in ballots in “direct usurpation of the legislature’s authority.”
The bill, NJ A4475 (20R) — which originally just increased the number of ballot drop boxes available in New Jersey counties — was amended to make an end-run around that argument. It passed the Assembly, 50-28, and the Senate, 23-14.
“It’s going to undermine the lawsuit,” Assembly member Andrew Zwicker (D-Middlesex), a co-sponsor, said in a phone interview.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/08/27/new-jersey-legislature-passes-vote-by-mail-bill-to-undermine-trump-lawsuit-1313141
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