By The thing that liberals insist never happens happened again. New Jersey officials acknowledged Tuesday that a software error at the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission improperly registered approximately 6,600 noncitizens to vote over the course of a year, with fewer than 400 of those individuals ultimately casting ballots.
The registrations occurred between June 2023 and June 2024 through New Jersey’s automatic voter registration system, noted multiple reports. According to Gov. Mikie Sherrill, applicants seeking driver’s licenses or identification cards correctly indicated they were not U.S. citizens, but a software malfunction nevertheless added them to the state’s voter rolls.
“Through no fault of their own, the system registered them,” Sherrill said in a statement.
The governor, who took office earlier this year, said she learned of the issue last week and immediately directed her chief counsel to investigate. She also ordered all affected registrations removed from the voter rolls and announced that the vendor responsible for the faulty software would be replaced.
“Our preliminary analysis shows fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted,” Sherrill said. “They were registered as Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.”
State officials have not disclosed which elections those ballots were cast in or whether any races were close enough for the votes to have affected the outcome.
The revelation prompted immediate reaction after Sherrill used part of her statement to attack President Donald Trump over election integrity—even as her administration acknowledged that thousands of noncitizens had been improperly registered to vote. Conservative commentator Sunny Johnson argued that the governor’s criticism of Trump undercut her own admission.
This is a bold counterattack to attempt while admitting your state found a systemic problem that allowed at least hundreds of foreigners to vote in American elections, while you also oppose efforts to ensure only citizens can vote https://t.co/WyaJB23pMY pic.twitter.com/EmP3bYbw5a
— Sunny (@sunnyright) July 21, 2026
The admission comes as election integrity has become one of the country’s most contentious political issues.
As New Conservative Post previously reported, federal judges recently blocked two major Trump administration initiatives aimed at preventing noncitizens from appearing on voter rolls. One ruling stopped states from using expanded federal citizenship data to identify potential noncitizen registrants, while another blocked most of Trump’s executive order requiring documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
Those rulings fueled renewed debate over whether existing safeguards are sufficient to prevent ineligible registrations, especially in light of a Democratic senator, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, saying that her party would not win if illegal votes weren’t highly scrutinized.
The New Jersey disclosure is also notable because, according to the state, the affected applicants did not falsely claim to be citizens. Instead, officials say they accurately disclosed their citizenship status, and the government’s own software registered them anyway.
The disclosure follows remarks by President Donald Trump last week, when he alleged that far larger numbers of noncitizens remained on New Jersey’s voter rolls. Trump cited a preliminary Department of Homeland Security review that identified as many as 35,152 potential noncitizen registrations in New Jersey and roughly 250,000 across New Jersey, California, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
New Jersey’s announcement establishes that thousands of noncitizens were improperly added to the state’s voter rolls through at least one known government error.
Sherrill placed much of the responsibility for the software failure on Latrecia Littles-Floyd, who served as acting Motor Vehicle Commission administrator during the relevant period under former Gov. Phil Murphy.
“I am appalled by the reckless failures that allowed this to happen, and the lack of transparency shown by those in charge at the time,” Sherrill said. “This failure didn’t occur under my watch, but accountability starts now.”
The software malfunction is separate from recent criminal cases involving noncitizen voting in New Jersey.
Earlier this year, federal prosecutors announced charges against several resident aliens accused of illegally registering and voting in federal elections by falsely claiming U.S. citizenship. Those cases involved alleged intentional fraud, while state officials say the newly disclosed Motor Vehicle Commission registrations resulted from a government software failure rather than false representations by the applicants.
Sherrill concluded by assuring residents that the state’s election system remains secure despite the error.
“New Jerseyans should have confidence that every eligible citizen can vote, every lawful vote will be counted, and every reasonable step will be taken to protect the integrity of our elections. That’s my responsibility, and it’s one I will never stop fighting to uphold.”
The disclosure marks one of the largest publicly acknowledged voter registration errors involving noncitizens in recent years and is likely to intensify the ongoing national debate over proof-of-citizenship requirements, voter roll maintenance, and the safeguards states use to ensure only eligible citizens are registered to vote.
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