Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t violate New Jersey’s “sore loser” law and can appear on the ballot as an independent candidate. Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, who also serves as secretary of state, issued an order Wednesday upholding in part an administrative law judge’s determination just a day earlier. The ruling means Kennedy can appear on the November ballot, and Way accepted his petition as an independent. Way rejected part of Administrative Law Judge Ernest Bongiovanni’s ruling saying that election attorney Scott Salmon’s challenge to Kennedy was untimely. She found the judge was mistaken, she wrote.
