Mikie Sherril’s still ducking on New Jersey’s noncitizen-voter scandal

New Jersey just finally deleted the names of about 5,000 noncitizens whom the state put on the voter rolls even though they checked the “not a citizen” box while applying for a driver’s license or state ID — but it’s still ducking the larger issue.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill blames a “software error,” though the company that supplied the main software says it warned the state of the issue, but the Democrats who run Jersey apparently just shrugged.

Nor has she addressed the issue that simply skipping the box on the Motor Vehicle Commission form where it asks you to say so if you’re not a citizen has seemingly led to thousands more illegal voter registrations, before and after that “error” finally got addressed.

Remember, she announced the “error” only after the feds declared they had ID’d over 35,000 noncitizen registered voters in the Garden State. 

That’s not a rounding error. Those are numbers that make a difference in close elections.

Like California and other blue states, New Jersey sweeps as many potential voters onto the rolls as possible; any illegal voters put on the rolls then face a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” rule: New Jersey won’t check and you won’t have to mention it.

And now Sherrill is stonewalling the feds as they try to figure out how deep the rot goes.

The 1993 “Motor Voter” law allowing for automatic voter registration also required states to take proactive steps to keep their rolls clean by periodically purging noncitizens, the deceased and those who’ve moved away.

Deep-blue states prefer to leave the rolls a mess; Democrats have so much else they’re rather spend money on.

Democracy can’t work if people think everything’s rigged; Mikie Sherrill needs to restore Garden Staters’ confidence that their elections are clean.