In the 14th Legislative District, Libertarian Ray Cragle of Wallace Road in West Windsor Township is running for New Jersey Senate.

   In the 15th District, Jill Penn of David Brearly Court in Princeton Township and Russell Cullen of West Upper Ferry Road in Ewing Township are running as Green Party challengers for two state Assembly seats.

   Jane M. Hunter of Bound Brook, who is chairwoman of the Green Party of New Jersey, has filed to run for an Assembly seat in the 16th District.

   Robert R. Klein has filed to run as an independent candidate for Mercer County executive.

   Patrick Goldsmith has filed to run on the Green Party ticket for Plainsboro Township Committee.

   Victor Federov of Laurel Road is running for Princeton Township Committee as an Athenian Democrat.

   And Green Party candidate Steven Syrek is running for mayor of Princeton Borough.

   Candidates submitted petitions to run in the November election on primary day Tuesday.

   According to Joe Fortunato, spokesman for the New Jersey Greens, his party, which is running nearly 50 candidates for state, county and local offices this year, will seek to continue to build its base as "the leading third-party force" in the state.

   "It reflects the widespread dissatisfaction that New Jersey voters now have with Democratic and Republican parties," Mr. Fortunato said.

   The Greens plan to tackle issues such as corruption in government, campaign-finance reform, sprawl and the environment, the Greens' spokesman said.

   Green candidate Mr. Goldsmith, an art dealer, said he will seek rental-housing reforms as part of his campaign for the Plainsboro Township Committee, as well as fight sprawl, which he charged is endemic in Plainsboro.

   Mr. Goldsmith claimed Denver-based Apartment and Investment Management Co., or AIMCO, of which he said he, his mother and sister and about 2,000 others in the township are tenants, is bilking its customers through illegal fees, in "collusion" with the committee.

   "It's a closed government here," Mr. Goldsmith said. "I'm organizing the tenants and we're going to try to take back our basic rights."

   Mr. Cragle, a self-employed computer-applications contractor, said he plans to run a "low-profile" Senate campaign in the 14th District under the principle that "people own themselves rather being property of the state.

   "I feel people are tending to the other view," the Libertarian said. "I feel people take it for granted the state has the right to tell them what to do and what they own."

   Mr. Federov, the Princeton Township Committee candidate, has said a model along the lines of ancient Athens, where he said each citizen was required to serve on a 500-person assembly for one month, is one he would like to see implemented in some form in the township.