New Jersey government under congressional investigation after explosive revelations on noncitizen voters

House Republicans are probing New Jersey's government after Gov.Mikie Sherrill admitted to more than 6,000 noncitizens being added to Garden State voter rolls in 2023 and 2024.The GOP has been hammering New Jersey Democrats ever since Sherrill announced that 6,600 noncitizens were mistakenly added to the state's voter rolls during that two-year period, before she was in office, as election integrity sits as a key focal point ahead of the November midterms.Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., wrote to New Jersey Lt.
Governor Dale Caldwell on Monday for more information on the state's compliance with federal laws surrounding elections.HOUSE REPUBLICANS CONFRONT NJ GOVERNOR OVER 6,600 NONCITIZENS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN ALLEGED SOFTWARE FAILUREHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil are investigating New Jersey's voter registration process after Gov.Mikie Sherrill admitted that noncitizens were mistakenly added to voter rolls.
(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.via Getty Images; Victor J.
Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)"During a July 21, 2026, press conference, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced that approximately 6,600 noncitizens were registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024 because the state Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) sent the information of noncitizens who accurately marked they were not citizens to the Department of State’s Division of Elections and the noncitizens were then registered to vote," Jordan and Steil wrote."According to Governor Sherrill, around 400 of these individuals successfully voted in elections since 2023.We write to express our serious concerns with New Jersey apparently adding thousands of noncitizens to its voter rolls and to request information from the New Jersey Department of State about its compliance with applicable federal voting laws."Sherrill attributed the mistake t...