NJ governor forced to admit hundreds of foreigners voted in elections after Dems claimed no problem

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is blaming a software glitch in the state’s motor vehicle system for accidentally registering 6,660 noncitizens to vote. She further acknowledged Tuesday about 400 of those foreigners voted in recent election despite a legal ban on foreigners voting in federal elections.The admission came less than a week after President Donald Trump gave a primetime address presenting evidence of election vulnerabilities, including hundreds of thousands of noncitizens who made it on voter rolls, spy agency concerns about voting machine security and a Chinese effort to obtain American voter data.
Sherrill was among those Democrats to deride the speech. But on Tuesday she had to reverse course and acknowledge the problem with noncitizens registering and voting in her state.
The applicants correctly indicated that they were not U.S. citizens, according to Sherrill, but the system accidentally recorded them as citizens.
The error occurred under the previous administration of Gov. Phil Murphy, a fellow Democrat, and about 400 of those who were mistakenly registered to vote cast ballots, Sherrill said. 
“These individuals answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers’ licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway,” Sherrill said.
“Our preliminary analysis shows fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted,” the governor said. “They were registered as Democrats, Republicans and Unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.”
“I am appalled by the reckless failures that allowed this to happen and the lack of transparency shown by those in charge at the time,” she said.

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