N.J. Stat. § 19:4A-15: Certain acts interfering with voters, election workers prohibited.

15. a. No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall engage in acts of intimidation, deception, violence or restraint, or obstruction that affects the right of voters to vote or the performance of official duties by election workers.

b. A violation of subsection a. of this section shall be established if:

(1) a person uses or threatens to use any force, violence, restraint, abduction, or duress; inflicts or threatens to inflict any injury, damage, harm, or loss; or in any other manner practices intimidation that causes or will reasonably have the effect of causing any person to vote or refrain from voting in general or for or against any particular person or for or against any public question submitted to voters at such election; to place or refrain from placing their name upon a registry of voters; to request or refrain from requesting a mail-in ballot; or to be impeded in the performance of their official duties if they are an election worker;

(2) a person uses, with reckless disregard for the truth, any deceptive or fraudulent device, contrivance, or communication, that impedes, prevents, or otherwise interferes with the free exercise of the elective franchise by any person, or that causes or will reasonably have the effect of causing any person to vote or refrain from voting in general or for or against any particular person or for or against any public question submitted to voters at such election; to place or refrain from placing their name upon a registry of voters; to request or refrain from requesting a mail-in ballot; or to be impeded in the performance of their official duties if they are an election worker; or

(3) a person obstructs, impedes, or otherwise interferes with access to any polling place, ballot drop box, or elections office, or obstructs, impedes, or otherwise interferes with any voter in any manner that causes or will reasonably have the effect of causing any delay in voting or the voting process, including the canvassing of ballots and tabulation and certification of election results.

L.2026, c.31, s.15.