New Jersey's Governor, Mikie Sherrill, has announced that around 6,600 non-citizens were removed from the state's voter rolls after being mistakenly registered to vote in the 2024 presidential election. The Democratic governor attributed the error to a "serious software error" in the state's Motor Vehicle System, which incorrectly registered people without legal status to vote. The disclosure is likely to fuel ongoing debate over voter roll accuracy and election integrity across the United States.

According to Sherrill, the software fault affected registrations made between June 2023 and June 2024, during which thousands of ineligible individuals were added to the rolls. She said fewer than 400 of those wrongly registered people actually cast a ballot in elections. Sherrill indicated that some of those affected had provided information suggesting they were not eligible, pointing to a breakdown in the state's verification process rather than deliberate wrongdoing.