Two seats in the New Jersey Legislature previously held for decades by a pair of revered lawmakers are on the ballot in special elections Tuesday. Former state Sen. Ron Rice, a Democrat and the longest-serving Black lawmaker in state history, retired in August amid health issues at age 76 after 35 years representing his Essex County district, which includes parts of Newark, the state’s largest city. A month earlier, state Assemblyman Ronald Dancer, an Ocean County Republican, died at age 73 after serving his Central Jersey district for nearly two decades. Now, the two people chosen to temporar…