How NJ-12's unaffiliated voters can vote in Tuesday's Democratic primary
If you're registered to vote in New Jersey but not affiliated with a party, you can still vote in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Here's how.
What to do on Election Day
When you arrive at your polling place on Tuesday, June 2, simply ask for a Democratic ballot. The poll workers will provide it, you'll vote like any registered Democrat, and your vote will count the same.
That's it. No paperwork, no advance notice required.
Find your polling place: voter.svrs.nj.gov/polling-place-search
Why this matters
In recent Gallup surveys, 49% of Americans say they don't affiliate with either party. That's not apathy — it's frustration with a system where two parties dominate every choice voters are given.
NJ-12's unaffiliated voters are a huge bloc. In a primary that may be decided by a few hundred votes, every Unaffiliated voter who shows up Tuesday changes the math.
Why I'm running
I'm Sam Wang — a neuroscientist at Princeton and a longtime democracy reformer. I've spent decades working on what's broken in American politics: gerrymandering, the corrupt county line in New Jersey, the role of money, the way the two-party system locks voters into bad choices.
I've laid out a lot of this thinking in my TED Talk on using math to repair democracy — from detecting gerrymandered districts to modeling how alternatives like ranked-choice voting would change outcomes. The tools to fix this exist. What's missing is the political will in Washington.
I'm running for Congress because the people there who could fix these problems haven't. The same career politicians who built this system aren't going to take it apart.
If you're tired of choosing between bad options, this primary is a chance to vote for something different.
Endorsed by the people who've been fighting for reform
Some of the country's most prominent voices on democracy reform have endorsed this campaign — not because of party loyalty, but because they've spent their careers studying what's broken in American politics and they recognize a campaign serious about fixing it.
Andrew Yang — former presidential candidate (read about his endorsement)
The Forward Party — the national organization pushing for structural reform of American elections (read about their endorsement →)
Lawrence Lessig — Harvard law professor and one of the country's foremost scholars on money in politics
Equal Citizens — the democracy-reform organization Lessig founded
You don't have to be a Democrat to care about fixing this system. These endorsers don't agree on every issue, but they agree on the bigger question: American democracy needs people in Congress who actually understand how it works — and how to make it work better.
How to help
If you can vote Tuesday: show up at your polling place. If you're Unaffiliated, ask for the Democratic ballot.
If you want to do more: with a few hundred votes likely to decide this race, every dollar we raise in the next 48 hours goes directly to reaching more NJ-12 voters before Tuesday.
Chip in to help us reach every voter before Tuesday