Exclusive | Former NJ mayor urges Trump admin to monitor state election after hundreds of non-citizens voted

WASHINGTON — Former Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjac is urging the Trump administration to dispatch federal election monitors to New Jersey in response to revelations about hundreds of non-citizens casting votes.Kranjac penned a missive to Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S.

Attorney for the District of New Jersey Robert Frazer arguing that the Garden State’s voter roll issues “warrant further federal scrutiny.”“The state has not disclosed the magnitude of the problem or the identity of non-citizen registered voters, which likely results from our Governor’s continuation of unlawful sanctuary state policies that provide certain protections and services to noncitizens at taxpayer expense,” Kranjac wrote in the letter.“Given the state’s reluctance to cooperate, my experience as an elected official in the state leads me to believe the problem could be significantly larger than Gov.

Mikie Sherrill is willing to admit or confront publicly,” he added.Kranjac, a Republican, had led the city of Englewood Cliffs, which is home to CNBC’s headquarters, from 2016 to 2024.In July, New Jersey Gov.

Mikie Sherrill announced that 6,600 people who answered “no” to a question about whether they had US citizenship were added to the voter rolls and about 400 of them cast ballots in elections dating back to 2023.She blamed it on a “serious software error” in the state’s Motor Vehicle System involving a vendor, French tech company IDEMIA.But IDEMIA disputed her characterizations of that.

Instead, the firm, which said it wasn’t tasked with putting those voters on the rolls, insisted that the state had access to data indicating those individuals weren’t US citizens.It is against the law for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.

All of that came against the backdrop of the Department of Homeland Security suggesting that over 35,000 non-citizens may be on the voter rolls.Sherrill publicly claimed over the summer that her team wasn’t given ...