About 6,600 non-citizens were registered to vote through New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission offices in 2023-24, and roughly 400 apparently cast ballots, prompting Gov. Phil Murphy to order an investigation.
Jeffrey Chiesa, a former Republican state attorney general and U.S. senator, will lead the review through law firm Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi as Murphy called the lapse "mind boggling" and said it "should not have happened."
Mikie Sherrill said the registrations stemmed from an apparent computer glitch at MVC offices rather than the voter-registration system itself, and she rejected Republican demands for a special legislative committee as a "witch hunt."
Sherrill also said she would support voter ID if New Jersey passed it, while opposing the federal SAVE Act on grounds it could disenfranchise eligible voters.