Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon doubled down on the DOJ's demand for New Jersey's voter registration data Wednesday after Democratic Gov.Mikie Sherrill's public revelation around 6,600 noncitizens were added to the rolls through the motor-voter process.Dhillon’s letter to Sherrill came as a slew of lawmakers called for audits and bipartisan cooperation to address the findings, while the Justice Department noted it remains in litigation against Lt.
Gov.Dale Caldwell seeking New Jersey’s electronic voter database."Ensuring that U.S.
citizens' votes are not illegally diluted by noncitizens' votes is of paramount importance," Dhillon wrote."We therefore write to formally request additional information to assess New Jersey's compliance with various federal statutes, as provided in our July 7, 2026, letter to the Lieutenant Governor.As we stated in that letter, we stand ready to help New Jersey election officials comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, as outlined in our memorandum titled, Federal Law Requirements for State and Local Election Officials."DEMOCRAT NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR SAYS THOUSANDS OF NONCITIZENS DISCOVERED ON VOTER ROLLS, PURGEDNew Jersey Gov.
Mikie Sherrill addresses a crowd in Middlesex County.(Michael Nagle/Getty Images)Dhillon noted that about 400 of the roughly 6,600 noncitizens New Jersey said were mistakenly registered to vote cast ballots.She gave Sherrill five days to provide the names, personal information, registration dates and precincts of the 6,600, as well as the methods and times by which the 400 who voted cast their ballots, while treating the letter as a legal preservation-of-records request typical in litigation.With the DOJ already engaged in litigation against Caldwell and the state, Dhillon said she would notify the judge in that case of the new development as the department continues to seek statewide voter registration lists from states including New Jersey, N...