6,600 noncitizens were registered to vote in N.J. because of a 'software error,' governor says
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Via: vic-eldred • 4 months ago • 11 commentsBy: Dareh Gregorian (NBC News)
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Roughly 6,600 noncitizens were unwittingly registered to vote in New Jersey from 2023 to 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday.
Roughly 400 of them improperly cast votes, she said.
"They were registered as Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state," said Sherrill, a Democrat. She added that it is unclear which elections they voted in and said there was "no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed" as a result.
Sherrill said that the names are being removed from the voter rolls and that the noncitizens had been registered through no fault of their own because of "a serious software error in New Jersey's Motor Vehicle System" from June 2023 to June 2024.
"These individuals answered 'no' when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers' licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway," Sherrill said.
While the number of noncitizens who voted in New Jersey is a tiny percentage of the state's overall electorate, the finding could add fuel to President Donald Trump's claims that they are voting in large numbers in U.S. elections. He used a primetime speech from the White House last week to push Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which would impose new photo ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement that the New Jersey incident "underscores the absolute necessity of the SAVE America Act."
"Democrats and their media allies have repeatedly said it is impossible for noncitizens to register to vote, let alone cast a ballot. Time and again, they have been proven wrong," Jackson said.
Sherrill said in a statement that "Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity." While his administration "tries to weaponize elections for political gain," she said, "I am ensuring we protect our elections."
Later on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in a letter posted to X that the Justice Department is investigating the incident. It's asking for the full names, dates of birth, nationalities, addresses, and registration dates of all 6,600 noncitizens, and for the 400 people who Sherrill says voted in past elections, including when and where they voted.
"Ensuring that U.S. citizens' votes are not illegally diluted by noncitizens' votes is of paramount importance," Dhillon wrote in her letter to Sherrill.
Experts say that this type of error does occur rarely, affecting thousands in a country with nearly 300 million registrants. Still, the scale of the mistake in New Jersey goes beyond recent examples in other states.
In 2024, Oregon officials announced they had uncovered an administrative error that put more than 1,200 noncitizens on the state's voter rolls. And in 2018, California officials said they may have registered 1,500 noncitizens accidentally.
The number of mistaken registrants who cast ballots is typically quite small: In Oregon, officials said, nine people who had been mistakenly registered appeared to have cast a ballot.
Sherrill, who took office in January, said the mistake in New Jersey happened during former Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy's tenure. She said it was "unacceptable that no one in the prior administration brought this to light, demanded accountability or took action when it happened years ago."
Murphy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Sherrill said she found out about the issue Wednesday — two days before Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin alleged in a letter that 35,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in the state.
The Department of Homeland Security gave the state two weeks to respond and confirm its "intentions to collaborate with DHS in order to ensure free, fair, and honest elections."
Sherrill said the state has asked for evidence of Mullin's claim and "heard nothing back." She added she does not intend to turn personally identifying information over to the federal government because the Trump administration "continues to weaponize it against people."
Mullin responded to a social media post in which Sherrill divulged the error, saying, "Appreciate you responding back to our letter."
"Looking forward to working with you to secure your elections in the future," he said on X.
Sherrill indicated in her statement that her office would deal with the issue itself. "When we find a problem, we don't hide it, deny it, or invent conspiracies. We investigate it, we fix it, and we tell the public. That's what accountability and good governance look like, and that's exactly what my administration is doing," she said.
She said her office has launched its own investigation and "will be holding people accountable."
They do not include those who were registered mistakenly. Sherrill said that she has concerns that their immigration status could be affected as a result of the mistake and that it would be "the utmost in hypocrisy for the state to charge them when it's our fault."
She also said officials are replacing the vendor responsible for the error, Idemia, "to make sure nothing like this happens again."
In a statement Tuesday night, Idemia said its role "is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system."
"The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote," the statement said, adding that the information Idemia submits "must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections."
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"Democrats and their media allies have repeatedly said it is impossible for noncitizens to register to vote, let alone cast a ballot. Time and again, they have been proven wrong," Jackson said.
Here are the facts:
The New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote: DIDN"T VERIFY LEGAL STATUS!
Of the 6,600 who were supposedly "unwittingly" registered to vote: 400 OF THEM WERE AWARE ENOUGH OF BEING REGISTERED TO CAST VOTES!
The democrat Governor is refusing to turn over the NAMES OF THE 400 WHO VOTED ILLEGALLY AND THUS THEY WILL NOT BE PUNISHED!
All of this came to light BECAUSE THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY GAVE THE STATE TWO WEEKS TO LOOK INTO CLAIMS OF ILLEGALS BEING REGISTERED TO VOTE!
"6,600 noncitizens were unwittingly registered to vote". So, what crime did they commit? Again, you do know IT'S NOT A FUCKING CRIME TO BE A NON-CITIZEN! Jesus fucking Christ, you can just stop with all the bullshit histrionics.
And as for the 400 who may have voted in some election over the last 3 years, did they KNOW they were voting illegally? They are in the country legally, they are working legally, and they have a drivers license legally, and in some States there are local elections that allow them to vote. These are all FACTS you ignore when you call for those people to somehow be prosecuted when they didn't even try to register to vote. You would have to be a useless ancient disgusting, worthless white xenophobic bigot shitting their pants in fear because of some imaginary threat of your entire culture coming to an end to be pissed off at any of these non-citizens.
Let the spin begin.
That's fkng hilarious, but not surprising, that this is coming from a Democrat LT Governor of a state with 6600 illegal registered voters.
And she is blaming the former democrat governor.
Murphy is yet to be heard from.
Is that surprising?
Nope. It's one of the things we learned about the left in Animal Farm.
Everyone is expendable for the cause. (Remember the French Revolution)
But it's insignificant! But it didn't change the outcome of any election! But it was just a glitch! But there's nothing to see here!
But, but, but ...
(Democrats like big butts and they cannot lie ...)
Yes, that is the response from conservatives when facing those FACTS about voter fraud. For some reason, even when they have those FACTS shoved in their face they're still all "But, but, but...". Fucking idiots.
Where's the lie? What the fuck are you talking about? They admitted to what happened and what they were doing to fix it and told everyone the severity of the fraud which wasn't much.
Have you heard ANY person you'd consider on the left claim there is NO voter fraud? I haven't heard anyone make that claim. They often ask for proof of WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD and of course they have yet to be shown any actual evidence of any widespread voter fraud. The best they can do is twist and contort the facts around a computer glitch where it turns out 400 people out of the almost 7 million registered voters in NJ might have cast a ballot but didn't actually try and register fraudulently or anything.
Again, I don't know how many times I must say this, but being a 'non-citizen' does NOT make one an illegal immigrant or mean that you're in the US fraudulently as these sad braindead bigots want to make everyone believe. The rightwing conservative pushing this lie should take their tired sick useless white nationalist xenophobic hate back to their dirty uneducated hollars and stay the fuck out of patriotic Americans way if they continue to refuse to join the 21st century and still think of themselves as superior.
Just one state,….
Back in December there were unsigned tapes found in Georgia.