ELEC also administers public financing for those running in primary or general elections for Governor of New Jersey.
The original four members appointed by Governor William T. Cahill in 1973 were two Republicans: former Rep. Florence Dwyer of Elizabeth and Frank Reiche, a Princeton attorney; and two Democrats: Sidney Goldmann, a former presiding judge of the state appellate court and former Camden County Judge Bartholomew Sheehan.
[2] Normally composed of four members, two Democrats and two Republicans, selected by the Governor of New Jersey, the commission has had a vacant seat since November 2011, the second year of the governorship of Chris Christie.
On June 15, 2023, Murphy named Thomas H. Prol (as chairman, D), former Assemblyman Ryan Peters (R), Clark Municipal Prosecutor Jon-Henry Barr (R), and former Senior Deputy Attorney General Norma Evans (D) to serve on the panel.
[6] Unlike most of the commissioners who served over the last fifty years, not a single member was a former judge, as the Commission operates as an administrative court of sorts.