New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill recently announced that 6,600 noncitizens were registered to vote in one county, and 400 did vote. This is what we know, and there has to be much more we don’t know about.
New Jersey is passing legislation to help fix it. It will add one sentence to the state’s automatic voter registration law to make sure someone who indicates they aren’t a U.S. citizen won’t be prompted to register to vote.
It’s not enough, but it’s a slight improvement. They were inviting people to vote illegally.
The Motor Voter law has made the voter rolls into Swiss cheese throughout the country. The vote is based on an honor system, as we have reported many times. Many of the unvetted illegal immigrants came to infiltrate and destroy our country.
Politico reports
But it also exposed an open secret about New Jersey’s so-called motor voter law that officials and political operatives have known for years: There’s little to stop noncitizens from registering to vote if they want to, or even by mistake. And election officials and campaign consultants from both parties believe that the number of noncitizens being added to the voter rolls is significantly higher than the 6,600 Sherrill cited — because the state has been automatically registering drivers since 2018, and her figure covers only June 2023 to June 2024.
“It’s the honor system,” said Hunterdon County Board of Elections Administrator Beth Thompson, who also leads the New Jersey Association of Election Officials.
It’s unclear how many noncitizens have registered to vote in New Jersey beyond the one-year period Sherrill cited. The Trump administration gave a preliminary estimate of around 35,000. While New Jersey political insiders don’t know if that’s true, they’re almost certain it’s more than 6,600. Some speculated it could be slightly more. Others said it could be even above the Trump administration’s estimates.
But Democrats and Republicans alike agreed that the statewide voter database is a mess, and that noncitizen registrants are just one category of people who shouldn’t be on it, like people who left New Jersey without notifying election officials and whose names linger until periodic cleanups of the voter rolls.
Does anyone think an honor system works? Anyone.
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