New Jersey State House in Trenton. Courtesy photo.
The three current commissioners of the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) have resigned following passage of the Elections Transparency Act, a massive campaign finance bill that allows Gov. Phil Murphy to vacate the current board and to make four bipartisan direct appointments within 90 days of the bill’s enactment.
The ELEC Commissioners—retired Superior Court judges Stephen Holden and Marguerite Simon, and a former federal prosecutor and official of the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education, Eric Jaso—resigned from their positions in the wake of the legislation that passed yesterday.
