The Department of Justice has announced an investigation into noncitizen voting in New Jersey, but the state’s Democratic governor is resisting the probe.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) admitted on July 21 that about 6,600 noncitizens had been mistakenly registered to vote, and of those, about 400 cast votes.
‘NJ has a legal duty to keep ineligible voters off its rolls … DOJ will get this information through all legal means!’
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She blamed the wrongful registrations on a “software error,” though the company working with the Motor Vehicle Commission countered that all the information it transmits “must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections.”
The Department of Justice responded by demanding that the governor hand over a list of those voters, but Sherrill has
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