Politico: NJ Democrat Officials Anonymously Admit Far More Illegals Are Registered to Vote Than the Governor "Mikie" Is Admitting; Some Think the Real Number Exceeds Trump's Estimate of 35,000

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In May, a bipartisan duo of New Jersey state senators introduced a simple piece of legislation that got little public attention.

It would 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.

The bill turned out to be extremely prescient.

That's because Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed last week that a "software error" at the Motor Vehicles Commission led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens getting added to the state's voter rolls. About 400 of them voted, she said.

Her disclosure set off a political uproar that's resonated well beyond New Jersey, feeding into the Trump administration's push for voter restrictions and setting up a legal battle with the Department of Justice.

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 clean ups of the voter rolls.

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Thompson, the elections administrator, said county elections officials check each registration against a state database using Social Security numbers or driver's license numbers to confirm their identity, and that the information doesn't belong to people who have died. But noncitizens can obtain both forms of identification. "It does not validate any kind of citizenship," Thompson said.

So they have literally no checking of citizenship at all. At best, they check to see if you have a social security number, but illegals can apply for and get those, too.

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But the existence of the bill, which has yet to advance in the full Senate or Assembly, suggests lawmakers were at least somewhat aware of the system's flaws. (A new law passed during the lame duck legislative session did something similar to Beach and Corrado's bill, but only for those applying for REAL IDs).

Officials admit they have no idea how many illegals are enrolled to vote -- but they're totally sure it's not a problem and never effects any elections, not a single bingle one.

Hello! Here we go again, as a gay robot once said.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:14 PM

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