About 6,600 people who told New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission they were noncitizens ended up registered to vote in 2023 and 2024. Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced the error Tuesday, blamed it on a software problem at the agency, and said fewer than 400 of those people actually cast a ballot. She has ordered the wrongful registrations removed and opened an investigation into how it happened.
The announcement lands in the middle of a national fight over noncitizen voting, an issue President Donald Trump has raised repeatedly this year. Here is what is known so far, and what comes next.
