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New Jersey's Non-Citizen Voting 'Software Error' Just Got a Whole Lot Worse — And Now California Is Involved

Six thousand six hundred non-citizens were registered to vote in New Jersey through the state's motor vehicle system. Four hundred of them actually cast ballots between June 2023 and June 2024. And the company that built the software just told Governor Mikie Sherrill it wasn't their fault.

Sherrill, the Democrat governor who says she inherited this mess from predecessor Phil Murphy, also a Democrat, tried the oldest play in the government accountability handbook: blame the vendor. In a statement, she called it "a serious software error in New Jersey's motor vehicle system" that "led to the improper voter registration of roughly 6,600 people in our state." She added, for maximum finger-wagging effect, that "this entire situation is unacceptable. It's unacceptable that the vendor released software with such a glaring error."

The vendor, a company called IDEMIA, was not interested in playing along. Their response was surgical: "IDEMIA's role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system. The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote."

Translation: we pass the data along. Your people are the ones who are supposed to check whether the person registering is actually allowed to vote. That's not a software glitch. Which is why some people are saying the system was designed exactly how Democrats wanted it to run. They just weren't counting on getting caught by the federal government.

And here's where it gets interesting. IDEMIA isn't some fly-by-night startup. They've been providing identity services to the California Department of Motor Vehicles for 64 years and hold a 12-year contract with the state. California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber has already gone on record claiming that "non-citizen voting remains exceedingly rare" and that "election officials work every day to maintain accurate voter rolls and ensure that only eligible voters are registered."

Exceedingly rare. Coming from the state that hands out driver's licenses to non-citizens and just started issuing new ones through its IDEMIA partnership in late 2025. The same IDEMIA system now at the center of New Jersey's scandal. Nobody's accusing California of having the same problem yet, but the infrastructure is identical.

The scope keeps growing. Federal officials have identified approximately 250,000 non-citizens on voter rolls across four states — New Jersey, California, Nevada, and Pennsylvania — with 46 states still unreviewed. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced that the administration plans to tie compliance to federal funding, telling reporters, "We are going to make our security enhancements mandatory, meaning that if these states want a grant and they want to be reimbursed to work or to run federal elections, they're going to have to implement security issues." That's roughly $1 billion in potential federal election funding on the table.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson didn't mince words either: "Democrats and their media allies have repeatedly said it is impossible for noncitizens to register to vote, let alone cast a ballot. Time and again, they have been proven wrong."

The SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register, has been sitting in Congress while all of this unfolds.

So the governor blamed the software company. The software company blamed election officials. The election officials in California insist everything is rare and fine. And 250,000 names across four states say otherwise, with 46 more states nobody's even looked at yet.

That's not a software error. That's a system working exactly the way nobody wants to admit it was designed.

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