NJ agency will conduct daily audits to prevent more voter registration errors, governor says

Gov. Mikie Sherrill says new daily audits at the Motor Vehicle Commission will prevent any more ineligible people from being registered to vote.

By: Nikita Biryukov

Outlets: New Jersey Monitor

Published: October 7, 2026

Words: 662

Last Updated: 1 week, 3 days ago

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The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission will automatically check new voter registrations against customers’ responses before transmitting them to election officials in a bid to prevent erroneous registrations, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced Wednesday.

The new procedures come more than two months after Sherrill announced roughly 6,600 people who marked themselves as noncitizens were registered to vote during visits to the Motor Vehicle Commission as a result of what the administration said was …

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