The pinnacle of the New Jersey Republican Get together claims that many extra non-citizens had been illegally registered to vote between 2023 and 2024 than the 6,600 reported final week by Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill.
GOP Chairwoman Christine Hanlon on Sunday mentioned Sherrill’s determine was simply the tip of the iceberg within the rising scandal.
“They’re indicating it’s over 6,000, however I do know it’s greater than that,” Hanlon instructed 77 WABC the “Cats Roundtable” program.
“So it’s extra to come back,” she added to host John Catsimatidis.
Sherrill admitted final week that greater than 6,000 non-citizens had been wrongly added to the Backyard State’s voter rolls and roughly 400 of them had really solid ballots illegally in New Jersey elections between June 2023 and June 2024.
The registering of non-citizens occurred beneath Sherrill’s predecessor, former Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, by way of the NJ Fee on Motor Automobiles’ computerized voter enrollment program when residents apply for an ID.
“Wow. That is one thing we’ve been speaking about for a very long time,” Hanlon mentioned Sunday of the egregious snafu.
“They admitted non-citizens had been on the voting rolls.”
The Justice Division has launched a probe into the troubling scenario, whereas state officers and a software program vendor blame one another for the scandal. Sherrill’s staff has tapped an unbiased agency, CSG Legislation, to research the fiasco as properly.
Sherrill claimed a “critical software program error” within the state’s Motor Car System involving French tech firm IDEMIA induced the mishap.
However IDEMIA mentioned the state had entry to knowledge displaying that these people weren’t residents — and apparently registered them to vote anyway.
The observe of registering folks to vote at DMVs is employed in dozens of different states.
“Elections come all the way down to a small variety of votes. This kind of problem can’t be dismissed or pushed apart,” Hanlon mentioned.
New Jersey has had greater than a dozen elections with margins of 10 votes or fewer previously decade, based on Ballotpedia.
“Full investigations have to occur, and coverage adjustments have to occur,” Hanlon mentioned. “The governor of New Jersey is making an attempt to say, ‘It’s this one glitch, one tiny factor. A software program glitch throughout a short while that allowed this to occur.’ I do know that’s not the entire story.
“We’re pushing to reveal the remainder of the story and actually push for coverage adjustments,” she mentioned. “It’s unhealthy insurance policies that result in these election-integrity points.
“It’s the principle focus for me. It’s the principle focus for the RNC [Republican National Committee], and for thus lots of our Republicans throughout our state and throughout the nation. We want election integrity.”
Revelations in regards to the voter-roll catastrophe within the Backyard State come as Republicans in Congress are pushing for extra strong election integrity measures on the behest of President Trump.
In a current prime-time deal with to the nation, Trump claimed that just about 250,000 non-citizens had been registered to vote in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and Nevada, with as much as 35,152 wrongly enrolled within the Backyard State.
Final week, the Republican-led Home hooked up a voter-ID requirement to laws that might ban members of Congress from buying and selling shares. The invoice handed with full assist from Republicans, however all however 13 Democrats opposed it. Home Democrats argued the measure requiring picture identification to solid a poll was a poison tablet to suppress voting rights.
Trump has pushed for passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility America Act, which might require proof of citizenship to vote, however has run right into a useless finish within the Senate, although Republicans are at present working to cross a watered-down model of it.
The SAVE America Act has been Trump’s prime legislative precedence of 2026.
