Overview
- In July, Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed that about 6,600 people who identified as noncitizens were on New Jersey’s voter rolls and that roughly 400 of those individuals voted, prompting removals and an independent state review.
- The New Jersey Division of Elections has removed more than 4,500 registrations created solely by the error and referred about 2,100 remaining cases to county election officials for case‑by‑case review and notifications to affected people.
- IDEMIA, the vendor that provides the Motor Vehicle Commission software, says there was no glitch and that the MVC requested a settings change in June 2024 which IDEMIA implemented in September 2024, a claim the state disputes.
- The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has an open inquiry and Republican leaders of the House Administration and Judiciary Committees have demanded IDEMIA produce documents and communications about the registrations.
- The episode highlights how automatic DMV registration depends on agency data flows and extraction rules, raises real risks of wrongful disenfranchisement, and has intensified partisan fights over state voter ID laws and the federal SAVE Act.