New Jersey discovers additional flaws in voter registration system affecting inmates and age verification

Governor Mikie Sherrill announced that a review of New Jersey’s voter registration process revealed two new problems. First, the MVC’s re-entry program mistakenly allowed about 340 people serving indictable offenses to register, and another 60 currently registered voters are also ineligible due to their incarceration status. Second, a software issue let roughly 750 applicants who indicated they were not old enough to vote be registered, although their birth dates showed they were of legal age; about 370 of those individuals voted, with many likely having other valid registrations.

The state is sending the affected names to county election offices for vetting and has instructed the MVC to add a confirmation step at future re-entry events. An independent firm continues to investigate, and the MVC is also expanding multilingual support and daily audit checks to prevent similar errors.