Panel: What's Next for the Primary Elections in NJ?
Building Consensus and Candidates
Monday, June 29
6:00pm - 7:30pm
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2026-06-29 18:00:00
2026-06-29 19:30:00
America/New_York
Panel: What's Next for the Primary Elections in NJ?
Panelists for this moderated discussion on elections include Colleen O'Dea, NJ Spotlight News; Dave Daley, FairVote; and Sam Wang, Electoral Innovation Lab.
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Community RoomPanelists for this moderated discussion on elections include Colleen O'Dea, NJ Spotlight News; Dave Daley, FairVote; and Sam Wang, Electoral Innovation Lab.
With the fall of the county line ballot system, the kingmakers in New Jersey primaries are now voters rather than party bosses. But with a first-past-the-post voting system, candidates this year have won with less than one-third of the vote. Can New Jersey find a way to give winning candidates a broader mandate? A veteran political reporter and two reform advocates will discuss practical paths forward.

Sam Wang, Ph.D. serves as the founding director of the Electoral Innovation Lab. Professor Wang has over two decades of experience translating data and science into practical action in American politics. With degrees in physics and neuroscience, he has taught and led research and policy work at Princeton University since 2000

Colleen O’Dea has spent her entire career reporting New Jersey news and won numerous state and national journalism awards and fellowships. She joined NJ Spotlight News in 2011 and now serves as its data reporter, as well as covering general assignment topics that include elections, politics, housing and corrections

David Daley is the author of the national best-sellers "Antidemocratic: Inside the Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections" and "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count." His journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic and many other publications. He is the former editor in chief of Salon, and a senior fellow at FairVote.
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