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Election officials will be able to begin counting mail-in ballots three days before Election Day.

, led in counted votes after midnight on Election Day. But by the next morning, as more Democratic precincts reported results, Murphy took over the lead.Remove voters from vote-by-mail status in the state if they don’t vote by mail for four consecutive years beginning with the 2020 election cycle. It replaces a law in which voters continued to receive a mail-in ballot after opting to receive one for all future elections until they notify county election officials otherwise in writing.

Require unaffiliated voters in the state who want to take part in a primary to declare a party affiliation to receive a ballot. Currently, unaffiliated voters get both a Democratic and Republican ballot for primary elections. It would also prohibit mail-in ballots from containing visible political affiliation on the outside of the envelope. It passed 77-0 in the Assembly and 40-0 in the Senate.

Allow remote training for election workers in the state and require municipalities to file bi-weekly death record reports to local election officials in the two months leading up to a statewide election. It passed 78-0 in the Assembly and 40-0 in the Senate. Allow minors in the state starting at 16 years old to work as election workers between 5:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on election days. It passed 73-3 in the Assembly and 37-0 in the Senate.

Require ballot privacy sleeves at polling stations and lets registered voters update their name and address online. It passed 46-32 in the Assembly and 22-17 in the Senate. (

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