Well, the ballot designed for this November's election has already been decided, but the debate hasn't ended at the state level.

Assembly leaders late last week announced they created a select committee on ballot design, made up of six Democrats and six Republicans, to come up with a legislative solution to the issue rather than leave it in the courts hands.

But several counties have already settled, agreeing not to use the so-called party line ballot structure that caused the battle in the first place.

So what exactly will a legislative committee do here?

Senior political correspondent David Cruz takes a look.

The whole design of a ballot is for voter, not to confuse the voter, that they can easily see the office for which they are voting and the candidates in it.

The way Union County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi explains, it sounds pretty straightforward, and the court agreed, putting a stop to the use of this, many think, convoluted ballot design beginning with the recent Senate primaries.

But lawmakers, many of whose encumbrances were made possible by the ballot design, say the court should have stayed out of the ballot design business and are now taking the matter into their own hands.

The judge, has has called into question the constitutionality of that.

And the way we respond to that is to look at our law.

Find out what's wrong with it.

Make it better.

Speaker Craig Coughlin says it's the legislature that should be responsible for ballot design and anything else that has to do with your voting.

The 12 member committee has six Republicans and six Democratic members.

We're going to hear from national experts.

We're going to hear from the people who administer the ballots, clerks and things like that.

Most importantly, we're going to hear from the people of new Jersey Assembly Republican Leader John DeMaio says.

Rather than sniping on social media and elsewhere, critics and skeptics should come before the committee to be heard.

He praised the speaker for fielding a truly bipartisan committee, but held off honoring his suggestions just yet.

I'll be keeping my finger on the pulse.

You know, I don't want to have any preconceived bill or attendance of a bill before the committee does their work.

The line which research found conveyed an advantage for party organizations was temporarily struck down this summer after Congressman Andy Kim and others challenged it in court.

A star witness was Rutgers Professor Julia Sass Rubin, who did the research.

I'm hoping for the best.

I think there is certainly an argument to be made that there is a role for them to go beyond the court ruling and improve our ballots.

Rubin says she has not been invited to testify, but has a few suggestions.

Right now in New Jersey.

Whoever gets drawn out of the bin first gets that advantage, and that's really not fair.

So what some states have done, at least 15 states randomize, is that they randomize the order by voting precinct, which is the smallest geographic unit.

And that way each person appears the same roughly the same number of times first, second, third, depending on how many candidates there are.

So that would be the most important thing they could do.

And if they do that, you would really do that through a computer program as opposed to the county clerk pulling names out of a box.

A longstanding tradition that has led to some convenient, if not suspicious, ballot placement for organization candidates.

Sass Rubin, also recommends standardizing the ballots across the 21 counties, which isn't the case currently.

Clerics like Joanne Rajoppi also have suggestions.

We think it's very important if candidates are going to be, randomly selected in an office block format, that the voter ID be able to identify the candidate they wish to vote on by a slogan.

The bottom line from clerks, as always, is expedite.

Let's not let this process drag on, because there's a governor's election coming next year, with candidates already lining up, and where and how they're positioned is important enough for them to be challenged in court.

If they don't think the new ballots are any better than the old ones.

The speaker says hearings could start as early as next month.

I'm David Cruz, NJ Spotlight News.