N.J.’s boss-driven primary ballot is dying. A new push to replace it was just revealed.

Craig Coughlin op-ed

State Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, D-Middlesex.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Adva

An unusual and controversial part of the state’s machine-driven politics, New Jersey’s decades-old primary ballot design — known as the “county line” — has faced a reckoning in recent months and could soon be gone for good.

But what should replace it? As a monumental legal battle upending the system appears to be winding down, a group of lawmakers want to take it from here and oversee a redesign.

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