Updated · New Jersey Globe | New Jersey Politics · Jul 27
New Jersey Republicans Renew Voter Roll Cross-Check After 6,600 Noncitizen Registrations
Updated
Updated · New Jersey Globe | New Jersey Politics · Jul 27
New Jersey Republicans Renew Voter Roll Cross-Check After 6,600 Noncitizen Registrations
3 articles · Updated · New Jersey Globe | New Jersey Politics · Jul 27
Summary
Assembly Republicans revived a bill requiring New Jersey election officials to compare voter rolls with jury records after the state disclosed about 6,600 noncitizens were improperly registered between June 2023 and June 2024.
A509 would direct the Secretary of State to work with court administrators, review potential matches and remove ineligible voters, using all available jury records back to the 1994 start of New Jersey’s motor-voter law.
Roughly 75,000 people a year have been excused from jury service for noncitizenship during the past three years, out of more than 1 million summonses issued annually.
Republican sponsors said those jury records show the problem goes beyond a single Motor Vehicle Commission software error, arguing the same flawed data is affecting both voter rolls and jury pools.