Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times,
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Oct. 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 U.S. 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.
Those people answered "no" when asked whether they were old enough to vote, but their registrations went through anyway, her office said.
Sherrill's administration 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 weren't legally valid, according to the administration.
About 380 of those people had no other registration and didn't vote, and their records are being deleted, according to the governor's office.
About 320 voted and had other potentially valid regis
