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WASHINGTON \u2014 A software screw-up at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission led to approximately 6,600 non-citizens getting added to the Garden State\u2019s voter rolls between June 2023 and June 2024 \u2014 hundreds of whom cast ballots, Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Sherrill said that her office has hired an independent firm to investigate the snafu, which lends credence to President Trump\u2019s warnings that states aren\u2019t doing enough to stop voter fraud.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed,\u201d said Sherrill, who bristled at the possibility of Trump using New Jersey as an example of vulnerable elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Donald Trump has done more to undermine free elections in this country than certainly anyone in my lifetime, including Vladimir Putin,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n

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The error took place when non-Americans applied for driver\u2019s licenses or identification cards and answered \u201cno\u201d to the question of whether they were citizens, but were automatically registered anyway.
Sherrill noted that while most of the recipients did not cast ballots illegally, approximately 400 did.<\/p>\n

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The governor claimed to have learned of the issue July 15 and confirmed she had received a letter from the Trump administration warning that some 35,000 people may have been improperly registered.<\/p>\n

\u2018We have asked them for any evidence of this, where they got that number, who this is,\u201d Sherrill explained. \u201cWe\u2019ve received nothing back yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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