New Jersey officials admitted that at least a couple hundred non-citizens have cast ballots in elections.
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VINCEAug 25, 2026
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill publicly admitted in July 2026 that about 6,600 noncitizens were wrongly registered and that roughly 400 (fewer than 400 by preliminary review) cast ballots, which is consistent with the claim of 'at least a couple hundred.' The extraction matches the post, and no source contradicts the core figure, though the 400 figure is preliminary.
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… Democrats perfectly content with this. Are those illegals voting, or non-citizens voting, in elections? Hell, yeah. They just happened in New Jersey. New Jersey admitted to at least a couple hundred who've been casting ballots. They have been fighting the federal government from finding out more. Harriet Dillon is locked in a battle with them in court to get the rest of the answers New Jersey refuses to give them. Why? Why exactly? There's a lot of smoke. …
VINCE · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. AP reports Gov. Mikie Sherrill said a preliminary analysis showed fewer than 400 of the wrongly registered noncitizens went on to cast ballots.[1]
Supports. Reuters reports Sherrill said nearly 400 non-citizens cast ballots after a software error registered about 6,600 non-citizens between 2023 and 2024.[2]
Supports. PolitiFact and FactCheck.org both confirm the state's own figures: 6,600 registered and about 400 voted, which is the official basis for the claim.[3][4]
Context. Fact-checkers stress that the 400 figure is preliminary and that the state's count of voters is a floor, not a full tally; they also note Trump's claim of 'thousands' of illegal votes goes beyond what officials have confirmed.[3][4]
Context. NPR and NBC note the registrations were caused by a software error and the state found no evidence elections were swayed, which does not bear on whether the roughly 400 ballots were cast.[5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 4 fact-checkers, 2 tier 2
- 16,600 noncitizens registered to vote after error in New Jersey motor vehicle system, governor saysapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Hundreds of non-citizens voted in New Jersey due to ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Trump Overstates Magnitude of Noncitizen Voting in New ...factcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 4No proof ‘thousands’ of immigrants illegally voted in NJpolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 56,600 noncitizens were registered to vote in N.J. ... - NBC Newsnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 6< Software glitch allowed about 400 noncitizens to vote in New Jersey, governor saysnpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: context
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