Platkin Announces Safeguards to Protect the Right to Vote During the 2025 Local Primary Election

Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that the Department of Law and Public Safety (LPS) is taking steps to help ensure a fair and smooth-running election during the upcoming 2025 primary election. The Department’s efforts to protect the right to vote will once again include a Voter Protection Initiative to address voting rights and civil rights issues that arise during early voting and on Election Day.

Early in-person voting for New Jersey’s primary election begins on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, and LPS will play a key role in protecting New Jerseyans’ right to vote, as well as in assisting voters, election officials, and law enforcement in resolving voting-related legal matters.

As has been the case for primary and general elections since 2022, the Voter Protection…