Thousands Illegally Added To Voter Rolls

A New Jersey “software error” just put 6,600 admitted noncitizens on the voter rolls, and hundreds still managed to cast ballots before anyone caught it.

Story Snapshot

New Jersey’s governor says about 6,600 self-identified noncitizens were wrongly registered to vote through the motor vehicle system.
State officials admit nearly 400 of those noncitizens went on to vote in New Jersey elections before the error was fixed.
The glitch ran for a full year, from June 2023 to June 2024, before being corrected and is now under investigation.
The state is purging the bad registrations and replacing the vendor, but has not yet released a detailed technical report.

New Jersey Admits Thousands of Noncitizens Were Registered to Vote

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, has admitted that about 6,600 people who said they were not United States citizens were still registered to vote because of a “serious software error” in the state’s Motor Vehicle System.

These people applied for driver’s licenses or identification cards between June 2023 and June 2024 and answered “no” when asked on a keypad if they were citizens, yet the system added them to the voter rolls anyway. State officials say the error was discovered only recently and traced back to the motor vehicle agency’s voter registration process.

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The governor’s office says a preliminary analysis found that fewer than 400 of these wrongly registered noncitizens later voted in New Jersey elections.

Those ballots could have been cast in any election after registration, including local races where margins can be very tight, though the governor claims there is “no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed.”

Officials also say the affected voters were scattered across the state and were registered as Democrats, Republicans, or unaffiliated, not tied to a single party.

How a Motor-Voter “Software Error” Went Unfixed for a Full Year

The mistake came from the automatic voter registration link between New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle Commission and the state’s election system. When residents applied for a license or ID, the system asked if they wanted to register to vote and whether they were U.S. citizens; in this case, people who clearly stated they were not citizens were still sent through as new voters.

The governor says the glitch began in June 2023 and was only corrected in June 2024, meaning the faulty code ran for an entire year while thousands of records were handled.

Governor Sherrill has ordered an independent investigation into what happened, including why the defect was not caught earlier and how many elections were touched by the illegal registrations.

Her administration is also starting to replace IDEMIA, the vendor that ran the faulty Motor Vehicle Commission system, and move to a new platform next year. Motor Vehicle Commission leaders say they are working with the new vendor to build stronger safeguards so that noncitizen answers are properly honored in future registrations.

Election Integrity Questions and What Comes Next

State officials are now purging any noncitizens who were improperly added to the voter rolls, and the Division of Elections is matching records to identify every impacted registration.

The governor says letters are being sent to affected individuals explaining that they were wrongly registered and warning them about possible federal consequences “through no fault of their own” as they try to become citizens.

She has emphasized that these residents disclosed their noncitizen status honestly and did not trigger the registrations themselves, which places responsibility squarely on government systems and oversight.

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New Jersey’s case fits a wider pattern where large “motor voter” systems can produce big registration errors, as seen in earlier problems with the California Department of Motor Vehicles and other states’ systems.

Experts on voter registration databases have warned for years that complex software links and poor testing can cause serious misclassification of eligible and ineligible voters, and have urged strong security controls, audit trails, and data checks to prevent such failures.

Until New Jersey releases its full investigative report, key details remain unknown, including the exact code defect, county-by-county impact, and whether any tight races saw illegal votes counted.