ELECTION LAW:  Election Recounts,  Petition Challenges, Ballot Access, Charter Changes, Voting Rights (and election controversies involving Condominium Boards, Community Associations, and Non-Profit Organizations)
 
FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, and MUNICIPAL Elections and Election Recounts -- representing Republicans, Democrats, and Independents .

As New Jersey election lawyers, we have served as counsel to Republican and Democratic federal, state, county and municipal elected officials and election campaigns, including campaigns for Governor of N.J., for U.S. Senate, for U.S. Congress, and for the N.J. State Legislature. Experienced in Election Recount law, we have represented clients in election recounts at the gubernatorial, congressional, and municipal levels.

Thaddeus R. Maciag, Esq. is an experienced election lawyer who has served as counsel in Federal, State, County and Municipal elections, and has argued landmark Election Law cases before The Supreme Court of New Jersey and the N.J. Appellate Division.  For direct web links to Ted Maciag's Election Law court decisions, click here: "Litigation, Trials & Appeals"

Ted Maciag brings to his Election Law practice his personal experience as an elected official (he was Mayor of a New Jersey municipality), and as a former Municipal Republican Chairman and a former Municipal Attorney.  His wide-ranging experience in Federal, State, County and Local government includes serving three years in senior positions in the Office of the Governor of N.J.; two years on Capitol Hill as Chief of Staff (A.A.) to a United States Congressman; as Special Counsel to a County Board of Freeholders, and as a Mayor and a Municipal Attorney (click here: "Firm Info -- Our Attorneys"   for more details).

Experienced in Election Law and Election Recounts, Mr. Maciag has served as counsel to Republican, Democratic and Independent campaigns in federal, state, county and municipal election campaigns, including appearing before the N.J. Supreme Court, Appellate Division, and Law Division in Election Law litigation.  In New Jersey Gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns, Mr. Maciag has served as assistant counsel to Chris Christie for Governor (2009), (and as a member of the Authorities Committee of the Transition Team of Governor-Elect Chris Christie (Nov. 2009 through Jan. 2010).   He served as statewide election law counsel to Tom Kean Jr. for U.S. Senate (2006); as statewide general counsel and N.J. Supreme Court litigation counsel to Bret Schundler for Governor(2005 and 2001) and as State Co-Chair of Lawyers for Schundler in both 2005 and 2001; as statewide election law counsel to Doug Forrester for U.S. Senate (2002), and as assistant counsel and Hudson County recount attorney to Tom Kean for Governor (1981) during New Jersey’s historic 30-day Kean-Florio gubernatorial recount in 1981.  

Ted Maciag has also served as counsel in election law matters to the N.J. operations of John McCain for President, to Mike Ferguson for U.S. Congress, Mike Pappas for U.S. Congress, Dick Zimmer for U.S. Congress, to New Jersey State Legislature races including Bill Baroni for N.J. State Senate and Bill Baroni for Assembly, and in numerous local election law matters for County and Municipal candidates, Municipal Charter Change groups, Political Committees throughout New Jersey, and to community boards, condominiium associations, and non-profit associations, including election law in the trial courts, the appellate courts, and the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Ted Maciag has appeared before County Boards of Election, and has appeared in Court at the N.J. Supreme Court, Appellate Division and Law Division levels in candidate and political committee representation, and Election Law Litigation cases, including Election Recounts, Petition Challenges, Ballot Access, Municipal Charter Change, and Election Recounts, in Bergen, Passaic,  Essex, Union, Hudson,  Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Union, Camden and Gloucester counties.

Mr. Maciag has also represented clients in N.J. Superior Court Election Litigation and Election controversies involving Condominium Boards, Condominium Associations, Community Associations, and Non-Profit associations and organizations.

For more information about the knowledge and experience we can offer in government-related legal matters, please go to "Thaddeus R. Maciag Profile", o r to " Government & Regulatory Law " . For more details on our Litigation practice in Election Law, Government Law and other litigation areas, go to "Litigation, Trials & Appeals" .