by Ireland Owens
Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday that over 6,000 non-citizens were mistakenly added to her state’s voter rolls due to a “serious software error.”
Sherrill said in a statement that last week, she discovered a software error in the state’s Motor Vehicles Commission (MVC) had “led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were not U.S. citizens between June 2023 and June 2024, almost three years prior to my taking office.” She added that the individuals had “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.”
“This happened under the previous administration and, upon learning this information, I immediately ordered my chief counsel to launch an investigation to get to the bottom of what occurred,” Sherrill asserted. “I also ordered the removal of any residents from our voter rolls who were erroneously added between June 2023 and June 2024. The new MVC Administrator that I appointed has begun the process of replacing the vendor responsible for administering the system.”
Sherrill also noted that her administration’s “preliminary analysis” of the matter suggests that “fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted.” The individuals “were registered as Democrats, Republicans and Unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state,” per her statement.
“This failure didn’t occur under my watch, but accountability starts now,” she continued. “I am taking action to prevent anything like it from occurring in the future and make sure those responsible are held accountable.”
The governor said while the “Trump Administration tries to weaponize elections for political gain, I am ensuring we protect our elections.”
“Let me be clear: Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity. For more than ten years, he has worked to undermine Americans’ faith in our elections by spreading lies about legitimate election results, attempting to overturn a free and fair election, encouraging an attack on our Capitol when he couldn’t accept the will of the voters, and defunding election security at the federal level,” she added.
When reached for comment, Sherrill’s office referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to her statement from Tuesday.
Sherrill’s announcement comes just days after Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed that DHS had identified thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Politico first reported on Thursday.
“We’ve put these governors on notice,” Mullin added. “States must work with us to ensure free, fair, and honest elections.”
According to a DOJ memo regarding the four states, “There is an undeniable pattern emerging as DHS begins to unravel the horrific damage done by the open border policies of the Biden administration. States that have adopted alien-first policies instead of American-first policies have a disproportionate number of non-citizens on their voter rolls.”
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Ireland Owens is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
Photo “Governor Mikie Sherrill” by Governor Mikie Sherrill.
