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The head of the New Jersey Republican Party claims that many more non-citizens were illegally registered to vote between 2023 and 2024 than the 6,600 reported last week by Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill.<\/p>\n

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GOP Chairwoman Christine Hanlon on Sunday said Sherrill\u2019s figure was just the tip of the iceberg in the emerging scandal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re indicating it\u2019s over 6,000, but I know it\u2019s more than that,\u201d Hanlon told 77 WABC the \u201cCats Roundtable\u201d program.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s more to come,\u201d she added to host John Catsimatidis.<\/p>\n

Sherrill admitted last week that more than 6,000 non-citizens were wrongly added to the Garden State\u2019s voter rolls and approximately 400 of them had actually cast ballots illegally in New Jersey elections between June 2023 and June 2024.<\/p>\n

The registering of non-citizens occurred under Sherrill\u2019s predecessor, former Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, through the NJ Commission on Motor Vehicles\u2019 automatic voter enrollment program when residents apply for an ID.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow. This is something we\u2019ve been talking about for a long time,\u201d Hanlon said Sunday of the egregious snafu. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey admitted non-citizens were on the voting rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has launched a probe into the troubling situation, while state officials and a software vendor blame each other for the scandal. Sherrill\u2019s team has tapped an independent firm, CSG Law, to investigate the fiasco as well.<\/p>\n

Sherrill claimed a \u201cserious software error\u201d in the state\u2019s Motor Vehicle System involving French tech company IDEMIA caused the mishap.<\/p>\n

But IDEMIA said the state had access to data showing that those individuals were not citizens \u2014 and apparently registered them to vote anyway.<\/p>\n

The practice of registering people to vote at DMVs is employed in dozens of other states.<\/p>\n

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\u201cElections come down to a small number of votes. This type of issue cannot be dismissed or pushed aside,\u201d Hanlon said.<\/p>\n

New Jersey has had more than a dozen elections with margins of 10 votes or fewer in the past decade, according to Ballotpedia.<\/p>\n

\u201cFull investigations need to happen, and policy changes need to happen,\u201d Hanlon said. \u201cThe governor of New Jersey is trying to say, \u2018It\u2019s this one glitch, one tiny thing. A software glitch during a short time that allowed this to happen.\u2019 I know that\u2019s not the whole story.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pushing to expose the rest of the story and really push for policy changes,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is bad policies that lead to these election-integrity issues. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the main focus for me. It\u2019s the main focus for the RNC [Republican National Committee], and for so many of our Republicans across our state and across the country. We need election integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Revelations about the voter-roll disaster in the Garden State come as Republicans in Congress are pushing for more robust election integrity measures at the behest of President Trump.<\/p>\n

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In a recent prime-time address to the nation, Trump claimed that nearly 250,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and Nevada, with up to 35,152 wrongly enrolled in the Garden State.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Republican-led House attached a voter-ID requirement to legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. The bill passed with full support from Republicans, but all but 13 Democrats opposed it. House Democrats argued the measure requiring photo identification to cast a ballot was a poison pill to suppress voting rights.<\/p>\n

Trump has pushed for passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote, but has run into a dead end in the Senate, though Republicans are currently working to pass a watered-down version of it.<\/p>\n

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The SAVE America Act has been Trump\u2019s top legislative priority of 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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