TRENTON, New Jersey (PNN) - October 10, 2026 - New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill on October 7 ordered daily checks of voter registrations processed through the state Motor Vehicle Commission after a review found about 1,090 additional registrations that were improperly handled.
Sherrill ordered the review after disclosing in July that a software error had registered about 6,600 people who said they were not United States citizens when they applied for driver's licenses and state IDs between June 2023 and June 2024.
She said fewer than 400 of them voted.
Sherrill, a Democrat, said in a statement that neither of the new problems involved noncitizens.
About 750 of the records came from the same error in a system run by IDEMIA, the agency's vendor, according to a press release from the governor's office.
Her office said that those people answered "no" when asked whether they were old enough to vote, but their registrations went through anyway.
Sherrill's regime said their birth dates showed they were old enough and that many appeared to have pressed the wrong button on the keypad.
Because they answered no, the registrations were not legally valid, according to the regime.
About 380 of those people had no other registration and did not vote, and their records are being deleted, according to the governor's office.
About 320 voted and had other potentially valid registrations, and their cases are going to county election officials, the governor's press release stated.
About 50 were registered because of the error and voted. Their records are being deleted and sent to the counties. The other 340 records came from voter sign-ups at agency events for people leaving prison, dating back to 2016, Sherrill's office added.
The regime said some people at those events wrongly said they were eligible while still serving a sentence for an indictable offense, New Jersey's equivalent of a felony.
County officials will review those records one by one.
Separately, about sixty people were found to be currently incarcerated and their names were sent to the counties for routine removal.
Under the new process, the agency will compare registration records each day against what customers actually entered, including citizenship, age and whether they chose to register.
Records that do not match will be staff-reviewed before going to election officials.
The agency is also adding a keypad question at re-entry events asking people to confirm they are not currently incarcerated for an indictable offense and offering registration questions in five languages.
Sherrill said she promised a thorough review so that no ineligible person stays on the rolls and every eligible voter is heard.
"In just two and a half months we conducted this review and are taking sweeping action," she said.
She criticized President Donald J. Trump, saying he has complained about the issue for a decade without fixing it.
State Senate Republican Leader Anthony Bucco said in a statement that the updates are "creating more questions than answers."
He said the public still hasn't seen the report on the original 6,600 registrations, and that with Election Day less than a month away, voters deserve to see the analysis behind the regime's conclusions.
Every Senate Republican has signed on to a resolution that would create a special Senate committee to investigate.
Senator Kristin Corrado (N.J.) also introduced a bill that would end automatic voter registration at the agency, require voter ID, and set biannual independent audits of the voter rolls.