All are entitled to their opinions. What’s odd about this one is it comes as Sherrill has announced that 6,600 illegal residents were added to New Jersey voting rolls between just a year’s time between 2023 and 2024.
Many of those were turned back before election days. Four hundred were not, meaning those 400 people illegally participated in Garden State elections despite assurance from Democrats voter fraud is nearly non-existent.
New Jersey is one of four states that received a letter from Homeland Sec. Markwayne Mullin (pictured below) warning that more than 250,000 illegals could be registered to vote across those states.
The New Jersey problem was found by a state review, Sherrill said, blaming a software glitch in the voter registration process.
The software vendor, a French tech company known as IDEMIA, has disputed the governor's characterization of the error. The company says applicants correctly indicated they were not citizens and that local election officials — not the software — approved the registrations, The New York Post reports.
Lingering in Congress right now is the SAVE America Act which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to vote on election day. The legislation has been passed by the House multiple times but is stalled by a filibuster in the Senate. This week while in committee it was attached to a larger bill aimed at defense spending and aid for farmers. It passed a full House vote this morning.
How does that happen?
New Jersey is one of 19 states that allow illegals to hold driver’s licenses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The hiccup that put most illegals on the voting rolls appears to have come during the process of applying for a driver’s license.
“Oftentimes people want to hurry and they hit the screen, they hit yes, they hit no. But there's a big question. It says, ‘Are you a U.S. citizen?’ What happened in New Jersey was people were marking ‘no, I'm not a U.S. citizen,’ but New Jersey is still putting them on the voter rolls,” J. Christian Adams, of Public Interest Legal Foundation, said on “Washington Watch” Wednesday.
Sherrill’s admission of the error has New Jersey in the news. They are far from alone.
Mullin warns of fraud in many states
Mullin believes there could be more than 35,000 registered illegals in New Jersey.
DHS estimates show there could be more than 190,000 in California, more than 35,000 in New Jersey, more than 15,000 in Nevada and more than 14,000 in Pennsylvania.
These states have not confirmed the DHS estimates.
Sherrill insists there’s no evidence that any of her state’s elections were swayed by illegal votes, which is something of a confession that voter fraud exists.
However, Perkins noted at least 10 New Jersey elections that were decided by 25 votes or fewer.
“This is a retreat position that the governor is using now because before this was discovered, it was like, ‘there's no problem with non-citizens on the voter rolls. That's what always happens here. The Left always has to keep retreating and come up with a new story, and now the new story is, ‘Oh, well, we don't think it made a difference,’” Adams said.
Americans are taking a less harsh stance on the presence of illegals around them, Adams said.
“In another era, everybody would be mad about 6,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls. They wouldn't be making excuses, they’d be making fixes,” he said.
'It happens all over the country'
Sherrill said her state would remove the illegals from the rolls, replace the software vendor and conduct an independent investigation of how the error occurred.
The U.S. Department of Justice requested detailed information about the affected registrations and voters, including names, addresses, and voting history, as part of a broader federal effort to investigate illegal immigrant voting. New Jersey has challenged the DOJ's authority to demand the information.
“We know it happens all over the country. We've been publishing reports on this for over a decade of non-citizens getting on the rolls,” Adams said.
There’s a heightened awareness of the problem because of the attention it receives from the White House, but every example is not a conspiracy.
“I wish it were a conspiracy because we could bust it up easier. What's happening instead is incompetence, glitches, stupidity, government bureaucrats, apathy. There you go. They just don't really care,” Adams said.
