Sherrill Rejects DOJ Bid for Data on 6,600 Noncitizen Voters as Privacy Fight Deepens
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Updated · POLITICO · Jul 28
Sherrill Rejects DOJ Bid for Data on 6,600 Noncitizen Voters as Privacy Fight Deepens
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Jul 28
Summary
6,600 mistakenly registered noncitizens are at the center of Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s refusal to give the DOJ names, birth dates, nationalities and addresses, saying New Jersey privacy laws bar disclosure.
Around 400 of those voters cast ballots after a Motor Vehicles Commission registration failure between June 2023 and June 2024; Sherrill says no election outcome was affected.
Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the DOJ Civil Rights Division, said New Jersey has a legal duty to remove ineligible voters and had given Sherrill one week to comply.
Sherrill has said she does not trust the Trump administration to handle the data properly, while warning that voters could face prosecution or deportation for ballots cast through a government error.
CSG Law is conducting a bipartisan outside review of the breakdown, and Democratic lawmakers say they will wait for that investigation before taking further action.