New Jersey DMV Registered 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote, With About 400 Casting Ballots
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Updated · Forbes · Jul 22
New Jersey DMV Registered 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote, With About 400 Casting Ballots
3 articles · Updated · Forbes · Jul 22
Summary
About 6,600 noncitizens were improperly added to New Jersey voter rolls through a DMV software error, and roughly 400 voted between June 2023 and June 2024, state officials said.
The glitch occurred during driver’s license or ID applications: applicants selected “no” when asked if they were U.S. citizens, but the system registered them anyway, Governor Mikie Sherrill said.
New Jersey said all affected registrants will be removed from the rolls and the software vendor will be replaced after the error, which officials said was not the applicants’ fault.
The disclosure quickly fed a national fight over election rules, with the White House and Republicans citing it to push the SAVE Act, while Trump inflated the figure to 35,152 without evidence.
The case is unusual against broader data showing noncitizen voting is rare, including a 0.04% noncitizen hit rate in federal voter-verification cases cited by the Bipartisan Policy Center.