{"success":true,"data":{"id":"0cb88825-fe35-4d7b-b59a-d334c25e53d3","title":"New Jersey noncitizen-voting mess is tip of an iceberg Mikie Sherrill hopes you won’t notice","summary":"New Jersey noncitizen-voting mess is tip of an iceberg Mikie Sherrill hopes you won’t notice Post Editorial Board New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced that the Garden State mistakingly registered over 6,000 non-citizen voters from 2023 to 2024.","content":"# New Jersey noncitizen-voting mess is tip of an iceberg Mikie Sherrill hopes you won’t notice\n\nPost Editorial Board\n\n New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced that the Garden State mistakingly registered over 6,000 non-citizen voters from 2023 to 2024.  USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect \n\n[New Jersey’s noncitizen-voter scandal](https://nypost.com/2026/07/21/us-news/more-than-6000-non-citizens-registered-to-vote-in-nj-by-software-error-gov-sherrill-admits/) is proving a lot less simple that Gov. Mikie Sherrill claimed.\n\nShe [fingered an outside vendor](https://nypost.com/2026/07/22/us-news/software-vendor-says-nj-approved-6600-noncitizens-who-were-registered-to-vote/) for a software “glitch” that led to the state registering 6,600 noncitizens as voters, with some 400 actually casting ballots.\n\nBut her scapegoat, French tech firm IDEMIA, says it did nothing wrong —- giving Jersey the data it requested and even warning about the potential “error.”\n\nThis is no fly-by-night company: IDEMIA provides TSA PreCheck services and Motor Voter technology in dozens of states.\n\nAnd it was contracted to simply collect self-reported citizenship info and voter-registration interest, then send it along to the state Division of Elections, which manages voter enrollment.\n\nIn other words, it was Jersey’s Democrat-run agency that screwed up, albeit under then-Gov. Phil Murphy . . . who championed Sherrill as his successor.\n\nNote, too, that Sherrill’s team learned of the mess a week before she came clean, as the feds were thundering about nearly 270,000 noncitizens they’d ID’d on voter rolls across Jersey and three other states — more than [35,000 of them in the Garden State.](https://nypost.com/2026/07/21/opinion/noncitizens-voted-in-nj-so-naturally-mikie-sherrill-condemns-donald-trump/)\n\nThe [Justice Department gave](https://nypost.com/2026/07/22/us-news/doj-launches-investigation-into-how-new-jersey-put-6600-noncitizens-on-voter-rolls-gives-mikie-sherrill-five-day-deadline/) Sherrill five days to hand over the names, addresses and voting records of the thousands of noncitizens her DOE wrongly put on the rolls.\n\nAnd Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin is demanding records of every illegally registered person in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and Nevada.\n\n### Get opinions and commentary from our columnists\n\nSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\n\nNever miss a story.\n\n- [x] \n\nAll this comes as these and other blue states refuse to share their complete voter-roll data with the feds.\n\nSherrill is continuing Murphy’s stonewall, insisting she wants to protect New Jerseyans’ personal info — and [blaming President Donald Trump](https://nypost.com/2026/07/21/opinion/noncitizens-voted-in-nj-so-naturally-mikie-sherrill-condemns-donald-trump/) for casting doubt on election security.\n\nWhat do you think?[Be the first to comment.](https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/opinion/new-jersey-noncitizen-voting-mess-is-tip-of-an-iceberg-mikie-sherrill-hopes-you-wont-notice/#nypost-openweb-conversation)\n\nNaturally, she _doesn’t_ note that his gripe is largely with how Democrats have undermined confidence with a long list of fraud-friendly “reforms” from [mass mail-in voting](https://nypost.com/2022/11/22/grand-jury-finds-numerous-instances-of-ballot-fraud-in-nyc-council-race-on-staten-island/) to [legalized third-party “ballot harvesting”](https://nypost.com/2023/11/06/opinion/election-fraud-is-no-myth-and-video-evidence-proves-it/) to automated voter registration — and, of course, an adamant refusal to require voter-ID, as the vast majority of Americans support.\n\nAll of which makes it look like Mikie’s scapegoating, stonewalling and sidestepping is about trying to protect _her party_, not her constituents.\n\nFiled under\n\nAround The Web\n\n### Today's Cover\n\n#### Trending Now  on NYPost.com\n\n*   [![Image 29: California family left in a pool of blood after ‘anti-white’ attack at exclusive Hawaii resort](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/135587733.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=260&h=174&crop=1)](https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/california-family-left-in-a-pool-of-blood-after-horrific-anti-white-attack-at-exclusive-hawaii-resort/)This story has been shared 72,278 times.72,278   ### [California family left in a pool of blood after ‘anti-white’ attack at 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