New Jersey Democratic Gov.Mikie Sherrill’s recent announcement of 6,600 ineligible voters found on the state’s rolls is only the latest in a decades-long string of cases involving noncitizens registered to vote in U.S.
elections, records show.Sherrill said that the ineligible voters were registered due to a "serious software error" in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System.Her announcement came within a week of a major address from President Donald Trump in which he warned that digital election interference posed a "cyber threat aimed at the very heart of our democracy."While New Jersey is the latest documented failure, it is not an isolated anomaly.
New Jersey's error adds to a 25-year record of state reviews, software failures and prosecutions that found noncitizens on voter rolls and, in some documented cases, casting ballots.Experts say the episodes establish a recurring vulnerability.
However, due to the lack of a national standard for identifying and reporting errors, reviews are sporadic and use different methods, making it impossible to determine how widespread the problem truly is."It's a major vulnerability," Jason Snead, executive director of the conservative think tank the Honest Elections Project, told Fox News Digital."And we have seen just within the last couple of years many states that have checked their voter rolls and found non-citizens on them … So, this is a big problem."NEW JERSEY REMOVES 6,600 PEOPLE FROM VOTER ROLLS WHO WERE ELIGIBLE TO CAST A BALLOT FOR 2024 ELECTIONMikie Sherrill, governor of New Jersey, speaks in the Assembly Chamber of the New Jersey State House in Trenton, New Jersey, US, on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
(Heather Khalifa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)According to New Jersey’s preliminary findings, fewer than 400 individuals who were improperly registered ended up voting.Sherrill said they lived all across the state and mostly lacked a party affiliation, though there were some registered as Democrats or Republicans.Fox ...