IDEMIA Rejects Blame for 6,000 Noncitizen Voter Registrations in New Jersey
California uses the same software…
IDEMIA fired back at New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, insisting its software did not cause over 6,000 noncitizens to register to vote and that the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, verifies registrations.
IDEMIA works with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, and has for more than 40 years, to support the process through which eligible individuals may indicate their interest in registering to vote when applying for or renewing a driver’s license or state-issued identification card. IDEMIA’s role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system. The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote. Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections.
We all laughed at Sherrill when she blamed a “software error” for the registration issues, without offering any evidence that the software caused the problem.
The people ended up registered to vote despite answering “no” when asked whether they held U.S. citizenship on their driver’s license or identification card applications.
Sherrill claimed “fewer than 400” of those individuals voted.
I googled “who verifies eligibility to vote in New Jersey.” The search took me to the New Jersey Department of State.
If you don’t vote at the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC), you can register to vote through the Department of State website or mail a form to the County Commissioner of Registration or Superintendent of Elections of your county.
So it sounds like all voter registration does indeed go through the New Jersey Department of State.
Guess which state also uses IDEMIA? California.
Thanks, Rusty Weiss at RedState, for catching this nugget:
California announced a partnership with IDEMIA in 2022 to modernize its DMV operations, including issuing all driver’s licenses and identification cards starting in late 2025. The contract was for 12 years, while a press release from the company indicated they had been providing physical ID cards and technology to the Golden State for more than 64 years.
IDEMIA CEO Rob Gardner announced at the time that the partnership was “not just about aesthetics” but “about raising the bar on security and trust.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been throwing fire at the Trump administration, stressing that no federal officials will get near the state’s election information.
Will Newsom change his mind now? Sherrill used the information to hit back at Trump and take credit for election integrity…even though the announcement just happened to come out after the president spoke about election fraud and DHS found over 30,000 noncitizens on New Jersey’s voter rolls.
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Comments
Newsome is so full of schiest. I wonder if he even believes the crap he spews.
Every time you hear the “make no mistake” phrase…next comes the big lie from him and all the democrats in charge of voter “registration.”
Voter roll corruption and fraud is a built in feature of blue cities and states…the folks in charge in these areas will be unified in their denial of voter fraud, even when it is discovered right at their front door. Our Republic is in BIG TROUBLE.
Deliberate corruption yes indeed is mostly confined to blue jurisdictions. That doesn’t account for plain old bureaucratic inefficiency, poor oversight and other failures to properly manage and secure the voter registration rolls. Lots of States have tens of thousands of deceased folks still on the voter rolls. Then there’s the folks on the rolls who have moved out of State. Add in the folks who moved one street over but didn’t update their physical address to reflect their new address.
IMO we need a complete update to voter registration nationwide. Purge the rolls entirely this coming December. Then have folks come in person to register with ID in their birth month. That’s all of ’27 accounted for. In Jan of ’28 open up registration to first come/first serve to everyone. That is plenty of opportunity to get registered before the primaries in ’28 in most States and the ones who insist on super early primaries can figure out how to provide more opportunities earlier with extended service hours on weekends and before/after normal operating hours or delay their early primary of its such a concern for them.
Do that and suddenly there’s no dead on the rolls, no names of folks who moved out of State and didn’t let anyone know to cancel their registration. We’d have the most pristine voter registration rolls probably ever and it would be a simple matter of maintaining them from that point with lawsuits to compel it as required.
Can’t do that in Texas. After this fall’s elections, our Legislature meets in Jan 27 for about 6 months. There are likely to be measures that have to be voted on in the November elections of 2027. Your proposal would disenfranchise a lot of people. I don’t know what other states do but they could be similarly affected.
No problem. TX can call a special session. In any event to do it Nationwide would probably require Congress to demand a separate Federal voter registration list to cast a ballot for Federal offices anyway. Most States wouldn’t bother to go to the trouble of forcing Feds to set up new parallel process and would alter their own process to comply. They even have the built in advantage of ‘blaming DC’ to do it. Even in resistance oriented States like CA it would eventually do the trick b/c now there’s an easy compare/contrast opportunity between the error ridden State list and the pretty much pristine Federal list …which would lead to some potentially serious problems for officialdom in the resistance States as their deliberate malfeasance and failure to maintain accurate voter registration rolls is laid bare.
How would anyone be disenfranchised? You’d have the whole month of your birth moth to go in and register. Then everyone who didn’t bother to get it done in ’27 would have all of Jan/Feb and the first week of March in ’28 to go register. If the TX Legislature in their infinite wisdom concludes more time is needed they could move the primary to mid July giving everyone an additional six months+ in ’28 to get it done.
Voter registration requirements ain’t oppressive and do not ‘disenfranchise’ anyone. Personally I’d argue to have it done every five years in person or the name is automatically .removed. Even if removed they could still go in to reregister …assuming that they exist and ain’t deceased or didn’t move which is how we maintain a clean list. The current system of leaving the names on there if a ballot is cast doesn’t help remove bad, illegal or legally insufficient registrations.
In principle, absolutely. Not only would it get rid of accidental cruft in the files, but also there are fraudulent registrations from many years ago, before any security of any kind was introduced, and merely requiring ID for future registrations does nothing about those. No, purge the rolls and make everyone reregister.
The timing you propose seems unrealistically ambitious. Even if Congress were willing I can’t see this passing before 2028. And it would take several years to implement; as BillB52 points out, some states would have a problem with the year you propose, so they’d have to do it on a different schedule. Which is not a problem. There’s no reason all states must do it simultaneously. So long as they all do it.
Without an immediate term hard/fixed deadline and zero wiggle room for excuses the implementation will be delayed … just as.Real ID deadlines were pushed off for years. Every lefty group and politician will push to defer implementation for this/that reason. It will be a never ending litany of excuses to delay it. Since we’re discussing Federal elections and Congress exercising its Constitutional prerogative under the elections clause then a single National deadline is very much in order not just logically but to preclude equal protection claims.
The whole thing is a squirrel diversion. What matters isn’t illegal voters but votes that nobody cast which are rounded up as needed.
For the most part I agree. Remember the truckload of ballots the driver knew he had in PA that nobody would look into, and the $5 offered to the homeless to register/vote esp in CA, and the ballot harvesters in MN that drove around the Somalian districts collecting from everyone, and the ballot boxes unsecured that FB schmuck put everywhere (only in blue cities)?
Did you hear about Slotkin saying basically we can’t mess with mail-in ballots, otherwise we would never win. (sorry don’t know where to find that)
And how does that happen? Because there are people registered who don’t actually vote. And what’s the best way to ensure they don’t vote? By registering them without their knowledge.
We got the State and software/service provider pointing finger and invoking the Shaggy defense ‘It wasn’t me’. Clearly the early attempts by NJ officialdom to pass the buck off to the software/service provider were in error. Most of us understood that from jump. This episode is revealing in that it shows who is in favor of offering/accepting excuses dependant on being deliberately obtuse and asserting willful blindness v demanding individual responsibility and collective responsibility from govt bureaucracy, their policy makers and from the State Legislatures who craft election security statutes with such vulnerabilities.
Elections, as done in normal countries, scales. The bigger the population, the more counters you have. It’s done in a few hours.
The bureaucracy keeps the staff the same and adds voting machines and the backdoors that come with them.
No voting machine, no matter what, can be trusted. See Ken Thompson’s Turing Lecture “On Trusting Trust” for the proof/reason. All it takes is sufficient motivation to take one over.
And there are backdoors independent of voting machines. You just have to get the vote counters out of the room.
“Fraud,” by its nature, is meant to deceive and can only deceive so long as it remains hidden. If fraud is hidden, how can anyone say “There’s no fraud here” without conducting an investigation to look for it?
Exactly. This particular incident was not fraud, which is why NJ was willing to admit it, but it highlights the fraud problem. If 6,600 invalid voters get on the rolls by accident, and 400 of them vote — likely in all innocence — how many more registrations must there be in the system that are invalid by design?
Seems a bit premature to make this conclusion. NJ claims this isn’t fraud because they are blaming it on software. But if the software excuse falls apart, it’s right back to fraud, baby.
These 6,600 may or may not have resulted by fraud from applicants but they dang sure have malfeasance or incompetence by NJ bureaucracy as part of the problem. I find it hard to believe that nobody in the NJ elections bureaucracy had a duty/responsibility to review for errors, omissions or fraud. Mistakes happen sure but if there’s no mechanism to review the process (and/or no enforcement of the duty) then at best honest mistakes will accumulate and at worst deliberate fraud will occur. The willful blindness excuses have got to stop being accepted and folks held accountable for their failures.
Not only did no one have that responsibility, the state has deliberately set things up so that no one can verify a voter’s eligibility. That’s definitely on the Democrats. It’s a deliberate strategy to make fraud as easy as possible, in order to encourage it. Which is the best indication that there must be a lot of fraud, even if we can’t point to it.
Nonetheless, this incident was not fraud. It was an honest mistake, which was not caught for the same reason that actual fraud is not caught; the system makes it impossible.
Are you suggesting that no one in NJ has a duty to review registration applications for accuracy/completeness at submission or transmittal from County Registrar to Sec State elections office nor to take any affirmative steps/acts under either NJ or Federal law to maintain accurate voter rolls by removing fraudulent, inactive, errors, or legally insufficient registrations?
They check them for accuracy and completeness. They verify that the information requested is all there, and that the person appears to exist and live at that address. Maybe. At least in principle they could check that, so I’ll give them the benefit of assuming they do.
But they can’t check eligibility. The state has deliberately set it up so that the Division of Elections has no way to know who is a US citizen and who isn’t, so how could they check that?
They rely on the applicant’s statement under oath that they are a citizen. The tape they get from IDEMIA is supposed to only contain those who did so assert; in this case IDEMIA screwed up and transmitted the details of people who explicitly said they were aliens, and the DoE had no way of knowing that.
This incident IS fraud, Democrat.
Your comrades lying because they got caught does not change that. Nor do your lies on their behalf.
They didn’t admit it. They got caught.
Democrats manufacture registered voters as needed.
And then vote for them.
Fuck off you fucking lying demon from Hell. Drop dead and go back to your master the Prince of Lies. You are disgusting.
No, they did NOT get caught. Who do you allege caught them, demon? No one. They voluntarily admitted that this happened. And the only reason they did so is because it was not their fault. They would never admit something that was their fault. They keep those well hidden.
Eff off you dammed lying demon from Hell. Drop dead and go back to your master the Prince of Lies. You are disgusting.
No, they did NOT get caught. Who do you allege caught them, demon? No one. They voluntarily admitted that this happened. And the only reason they did so is because it was not their fault. They would never admit something that was their fault. They keep those well hidden.
Sorry, this is bullshit. IDEMIA is not denying that these invalid registrations resulted from a bug that it introduced in June 2023 and fixed in June 2024. It doesn’t deny that when its software asked an applicant whether he was a citizen, and he answered “no”, it nonetheless continued with the application and transmitted the applicant’s details to the Division of Elections. All it’s saying is that it was the DoE’s job to independently verify the applicant’s eligibility, so the DoE should have caught IDEMIA’s error and rejected the applications.
That’s bullshit, first of all because the DoE’s failure to fix IDEMIA’s error doesn’t change the fact that it was IDEMIA’s error that allowed these registrations through in the first place. The DoE shouldn’t have even received these applications.
Second, since the citizenship question is supposed to be a filter, and if someone answers “no” the software should just take him to the exit screen and not even take his details, I highly doubt that the information it transmits to the DoE would include the answer to the citizenship question. Everyone in the batch transmitted should have answered “yes”, so it would be redundant to transmit a flag that’s always “yes”. So the DoE would not know that these 6600 people said they were aliens.
Third, when the DoE verifies the details that means things like address and date of birth, not citizenship. It has no means to verify an applicant’s citizenship.
Originally that was because under the 0bama administration the State Department deliberately denied the states access to its database, precisely so that they would not be able to verify voter registrations even if they wanted to. When Trump came in he offered the states access to the database, but the blue states refused. That was obviously a deliberate political decision made for the express purpose of making fraud easier; but nonetheless it was the state’s decision, and so the DoE still has no access to the database and thus has no means of verifying citizenship, so it obviously doesn’t do so. Which means that if an application that came through from IDEMIA and all the personal information checked out, the DoE would automatically accept the registration.
So no, this is not on the NJ Division of Elections. It’s on IDEMIA for having allowed these mistaken applications through. And of course it’s on the State of NJ for deliberately setting their system up so as to make fraud easy. In this case what it allowed was not fraud but an honest mistake; but had the state been checking for fraud it would have caught the mistake too. By refusing to check for fraud, the mistake went through as well.
“I highly doubt that the information it transmits to the DoE would include the answer to the citizenship question. Everyone in the batch transmitted should have answered ‘yes’, so it would be redundant to transmit a flag that’s always ‘yes’. So the DoE would not know that these 6600 people said they were aliens.”
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Is that a “!!!” of agreement, or what?
As a matter of data design, a list that by specification contains only entries that fit a certain criterion should not include a field to indicate that criterion. If it’s for loading into a database that includes entries that don’t fit that criterion, then the ETL program should simply hardcode a Y for that field.
Wowser! Who woulda known??!!