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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion. | |
| a) Abortions should always be illegal. | |
| ✕ | b) Abortions should always be legal. |
| ✕ | c) Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy. |
| ✕ | d) Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape. |
| ✕ | e) Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered. |
| f) Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions. | |
| ✕ | g) Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors. |
| h) Other or expanded principles | |
| State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category. | |
| Maintain Status | a) Education (Higher) |
| Greatly Increase | b) Education (K-12) |
| c) Emergency preparedness | |
| d) Environment | |
| Slightly Increase | e) Health care |
| Greatly Decrease | f) Law enforcement |
| g) Transportation and highway infrastructure | |
| Slightly Decrease | h) Welfare |
| i) Other or expanded categories | |
| State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax. | |
| Maintain Status | a) Alcohol taxes |
| Slightly Decrease | b) Capital gains taxes |
| Slightly Increase | c) Cigarette taxes |
| Greatly Increase | d) Corporate taxes |
| e) Gasoline taxes | |
| f) Income taxes (incomes below $75,000) | |
| Greatly Decrease | g) Income taxes (incomes above $75,000) |
| h) Property taxes | |
| i) Sales taxes | |
| Eliminate | j) Vehicle taxes |
| k) Other or expanded categories | |
| No | l) Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales? |
| Yes | m) Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget? |
| No | n) Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget? |
| No | o) Do you support leasing the New Jersey Turnpike to a private company to help reduce the state's debt? |
| p) Other or expanded principles | |
| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform. | |
| No | a) Do you support the current limit of terms for New Jersey governors? |
| Yes | b) Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Jersey state senators and representatives? |
| c) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates? | |
| Yes | 1) Individual |
| Yes | 2) PAC |
| Yes | 3) Corporate |
| Yes | 4) Political Parties |
| Yes | d) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information? |
| Yes | e) Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns? |
| Yes | f) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes? |
| Yes | g) Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in New Jersey are closed? |
| No | h) Should New Jersey continue to recognize civil unions between same-sex couples? |
| No | i) Should New Jersey recognize marriages between same-sex couples? |
| Yes | j) Do you support a New Jersey constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman? |
| Undecided | k) Do you support the New Jersey state government using eminent domain to seize private property for the purpose of private development? |
| l) Other or expanded principles | |
| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime. | |
| a) Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff. | |
| b) Support the death penalty in New Jersey. | |
| ✕ | c) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released. |
| ✕ | d) End parole for repeat violent offenders. |
| ✕ | e) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders. |
| ✕ | f) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. |
| g) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes. | |
| ✕ | h) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults. |
| i) Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes. | |
| ✕ | j) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth. |
| ✕ | k) Strengthen sex-offender laws. |
| ✕ | l) Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine). |
| m) Other or expanded principles | |
| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education. | |
| ✕ | a) Support national standards and testing of public school students. |
| b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school. | |
| c) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school. | |
| ✕ | d) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure). |
| ✕ | e) Increase funds for hiring additional teachers. |
| f) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay. | |
| ✕ | g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools. |
| ✕ | h) Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams. |
| ✕ | i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries. |
| ✕ | j) Increase funding for Head Start programs. |
| ✕ | k) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable. |
| ✕ | l) Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods. |
| m) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs. | |
| n) Other or expanded principles | |
| Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment. | |
| ✕ | a) Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market. |
| b) Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion. | |
| ✕ | c) Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses. |
| ✕ | d) Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families. |
| ✕ | e) Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families. |
| ✕ | f) Support the inclusion of sexual orientation in New Jersey's anti-discrimination laws. |
| ✕ | g) Increase the state minimum wage. |
| h) Other or expanded principles | |
| Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on: | |
| No | a) Public employment |
| No | b) State college and university admissions |
| No | c) State contracting |
| d) Other or expanded principles | |
| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy. | |
| ✕ | a) Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology. |
| ✕ | b) Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil). |
| ✕ | c) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned. |
| ✕ | d) Increase funding for improvements to New Jersey's power generating and transmission facilities. |
| ✕ | e) Support funding for open space preservation. |
| ✕ | f) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law. |
| g) Other or expanded principles | |
| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns. | |
| a) Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |
| b) Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |
| c) Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |
| d) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns. | |
| ✕ | e) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows. |
| ✕ | f) Require a license for gun possession. |
| g) Other or expanded principles | |
| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health. | |
| ✕ | a) Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary. |
| ✕ | b) Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs. |
| c) Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits. | |
| ✕ | d) Support patients' right to sue their HMOs. |
| e) Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government. | |
| f) Legalize physician assisted suicide in New Jersey. | |
| ✕ | g) Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes. |
| h) Other or expanded principles | |
| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare. | |
| ✕ | a) Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients. |
| ✕ | b) Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients. |
| ✕ | c) Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work. |
| d) Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations. | |
| e) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor. | |
| ✕ | f) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients. |
| g) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs. | |
| h) Other or expanded principles | |
