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

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Key points

• Remember, she confirmed the "error" only after the feds declared they had ID'd over 35, 000 noncitizen registered voters in the Garden State.
• Democracy can't work if individuals think everything's rigged; Mikie Sherrill needs to restore Garden Staters' confidence that their elections are clean.
• And now Sherrill is stonewalling the feds as they try to figure out how deep the rot goes.
• Deep-blue states prefer to leave the rolls a mess; Democrats have so much else they're rather spend funds on.
• Those are numbers that create a difference in close elections.

New Jersey just finally deleted the names of regarding 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 problem.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill blames a "software error, " though the firm that supplied the main software states it cautioned the state of the problem, but the Democrats who run Jersey apparently just shrugged.

Nor has she addressed the matter 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 secured addressed.

That's not a rounding error. Those are numbers that create a difference in close elections.

Like California and other blue states, New Jersey sweeps as plenty of potential voters onto the rolls as feasible; 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.

Meanwhile, the 1993 "Motor Voter" law allowing for automatic voter registration additionally required states to take proactive steps to keep their rolls clean by periodically purging noncitizens, the deceased and those who've moved away. Obtain opinions and commentary from our columnists.

In short, mikie Sherril's still ducking on New Jersey's noncitizen is the central thread here, and readers can expect follow-up reporting as the picture becomes clearer.