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The software vendor Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill faulted for putting 6,600 noncitizens on the voter rolls says the state had the data to stop it and signed off anyway.
IDEMIA, the French identity technology firm Sherrill blamed this week, pushed back on the governor's account in a statement to the New York Post. Spokesperson Lisa Shoemaker confirmed Sherrill's statement that all 6,600 people answered "Yes" to registering and "No" to being a citizen — which should have rendered them ineligible for the voter rolls — but disputed the governor's claim that a "glitch" allowed them to be registered.
"The 6,600 records submitted to the [Motor Vehicle Commission] and Division of Elections contained correct information according to the design specifications as set out by the state," she told the Post, adding that the responses were "recorded correctly and always available."
Shoemaker also told the outlet that "at no point was a noncitizen ever marked as a citizen in the database" and that the company "does not control or manage voter enrollment," suggesting that the fault lies elsewhere. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Arrests Illegal Alien For Voting In Federal Election)
Sherrill told reporters Tuesday that a serious software error in the state's Motor Vehicle System caused the mistake, which she said led to roughly 400 noncitizens casting ballots, according to the New Jersey Monitor. The error ran from June 2023 to June 2024 under her predecessor, Democrat Phil Murphy, and the state found no evidence any election was swayed, the Monitor reported.
A New Jersey official rejected IDEMIA's version when reached by the Post. "Anytime somebody answers 'no' to the citizenship question, that record should not be transmitted to the Division of Elections," the official said.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon gave the state five business days to hand over the names, birth dates, nationalities and addresses of the 6,600 registrants, plus voting records for the 400 who cast ballots, Fox News reported. Dhillon tied the demand to an existing federal suit over the state's voter database, according to Fox.
Sherrill's camp cast the probe as political. "The Trump administration has a long history of weaponizing the Justice Department for political purposes and attempting to overturn election results," spokesperson Sean Higgins told the Post.
Republican New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer has asked the General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget for a government-wide audit of every federal contract tied to IDEMIA, telling GSA's Edward Forst and OMB's Russ Vought that the failure raises national concerns, the New Jersey Globe reported.
"The deeper problem is national," Gottheimer said. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson pointed to the case as reason to pass the SAVE Act, while state Republicans called for an end to automatic voter registration at DMVs, according to the Monitor.
