GOP chief claims NJs 6,600 non-citizens illegally registered to vote are just tip of the iceberg: More to come

The head of the New Jersey Republican Party claims that many more non-citizens were illegally registered to vote between 2023 and 2024 than the 6,600 reported last week by Democratic Gov.Mikie Sherrill.GOP Chairwoman Christine Hanlon on Sunday said Sherrill’s figure was just the tip of the iceberg in the emerging scandal.“They’re indicating it’s over 6,000, but I know it’s more than that,” Hanlon told 77 WABC the “Cats Roundtable” program.“So it’s more to come,” she added to host John Catsimatidis.Sherrill admitted last week that more than 6,000 non-citizens were wrongly added to the Garden State’s voter rolls and approximately 400 of them had actually cast ballots illegally in New Jersey elections between June 2023 and June 2024.The registering of non-citizens occurred under Sherrill’s predecessor, former Democratic Gov.

Phil Murphy, through the NJ Commission on Motor Vehicles’ automatic voter enrollment program when residents apply for an ID.“Wow.This is something we’ve been talking about for a long time,” Hanlon said Sunday of the egregious snafu.

“They admitted non-citizens were on the voting rolls.”The Justice Department has launched a probe into the troubling situation, while state officials and a software vendor blame each other for the scandal.Sherrill’s team has tapped an independent firm, CSG Law, to investigate the fiasco as well.Sherrill claimed a “serious software error” in the state’s Motor Vehicle System involving French tech company IDEMIA caused the mishap.

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But IDEMIA said the state had access to data showing that those individuals were not citizens — and apparently registered them to vote anyway.The practice of registering people to vote at DMVs is employed in do...