N.J. isn’t sending out mail-in ballots to everyone for June 8 primary. Here’s how to get one. Updated May 10, 2021; Facebook Share This year’s primary election in New Jersey won’t look like last year’s, so you may not automatically receive a ballot in the mail this time. In 2020, the state sent out mail-in ballots to all of New Jersey’s 3.6 million registered Democrats and Republican living here to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. But with the state’s COVID-19 numbers improving, Gov. Phil Murphy has already announced that this year’s June 8 primary election — a big one, with the governor’s office and all 120 seats in the state Legislature on the ballot — will be conducted “primarily in-person.”