New Jersey’s non-citizens on the voter rolls scandal is not a glitch. It is a window into a complete breakdown in a system of election integrity and Congress is finally looking through it.
This week, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitution held a hearing, “Restoring Election Integrity: Oversight of Voter Fraud in New Jersey.” According to information gathered by Republican investigators in the Garden State, in 2023 and 2024 alone, at least 6,600 non-citizens were placed on the state’s voter rolls. Hundreds of them even went on to cast ballots in various elections. Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill finally admitted the huge problem after she was forced into making the confession by the GOP investigators and a formal warning letter from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Then she stonewalled the Department of Justice.
“‘Coverup’ is the polite way to say, in political terms, you don’t want this to come to light,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ, said of Gov. Sherrill and her administration in relation to the allegations of a coverup.
As the House Judiciary subcommittee continued to dig through the voter fraud scandal in New Jersey, experts on election integrity testified that what happened in the Garden State is likely to have happened in other states, on dates other than those cited by Governor Sherrill. Jason Sena, an election law attorney from New Jersey, noted that non-citizens had registered to vote in the state before and after the so-called ‘glitch’ in software that Governor Sherrill said caused the problem, through means having nothing to do with the Motor Vehicle Commission. Josh Findlay, a research analyst with the America First Policy Institute, concurred with Sena, adding, “New Jersey may be just the tip of the iceberg.”
Hellbound and Down 