Overview
- State officials disclosed that a programming error in New Jersey’s motor‑vehicle registration system wrongly added roughly 6,600 people who had declared they were non‑U.S. citizens to voter rolls.
- Authorities said the erroneous registrations occurred between June 2023 and June 2024 and that fewer than 400 of those listed appear to have cast ballots.
- Every person involved had reported noncitizen status when applying for a driver’s license or state ID, but the system still recorded them as registered voters because of the software fault.
- Governor Mikie Sherrill ordered the names removed, opened an independent probe, said the state will replace the software, will not rehire the vendor responsible, and pledged to shield affected people from prosecution.
- The disclosure has been seized on in Washington by President Trump and supporters of the Save Act to press for national citizenship checks, while Democrats note there is no evidence the 2024 result in New Jersey — decided by more than 250,000 votes — was altered.