{"id":2643278,"date":"2026-08-11T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mikie-sherrill-supports-voter-id-laws-after-glitch-registers-over-6000-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:43:49","slug":"mikie-sherrill-supports-voter-id-laws-after-glitch-registers-over-6000-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mikie-sherrill-supports-voter-id-laws-after-glitch-registers-over-6000-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikie Sherrill supports voter ID laws after glitch registers over 6,000 immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmikie-sherrill-supports-voter-id-laws-after-glitch-registers-over-6000-immigrants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2643278&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Governor Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey has expressed support for voter ID laws following her administration&#8217;s removal of 6,600 noncitizens from the state&#8217;s voter rolls in July, which she attributed to a software error dating back to her predecessor. She advocates for voter ID measures but opposes the federal SAVE America Act proposed by President Trump, viewing it as voter suppression and a threat to personal privacy. Sherrill supports existing ID requirements for voting in New Jersey, which include showing a driver&#8217;s license, ID card, or social security number. Her stance has been reinforced by her spokesperson, emphasizing her commitment to election security and opposition to efforts perceived as voter suppression by &#8220;MAGA Republicans.&#8221; The White House has highlighted the incident as an example of the need for federal election security legislation like the SAVE Act. Simultaneously occurring, Sherrill declined a Justice Department request to share details about the noncitizens removed from the rolls, and recent actions by House Republicans have involved urging a software company to disclose details about how noncitizens where added to voter lists.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mikie-sherrill\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"19767\">Mikie Sherrill<\/a> (D-NJ) is voicing support for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/voter-id\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"162\">voter ID<\/a> laws in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-jersey\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1065\">New Jersey<\/a> after her administration removed 6,600 noncitizens from its voter rolls in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The debate over <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elections\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"452\">election integrity <\/a>and security has all but zeroed in on New Jersey over the past several weeks after Sherrill announced her administration removed the thousands of noncitizens who were illegally registered to vote after what she <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4657284\/sherrill-remove-6000-noncitizens-voter-rolls-dmv-error\/\">called<\/a> a \u201cserious software error\u201d that began under her predecessor, former Democratic Gov. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/phil-murphy\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1066\">Phil Murphy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/4683328\/mikie-sherrill-supports-voter-id-law\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Mikie Sherrill supports voter ID laws after glitch registers over 6,000 immigrants<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div 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<\/div>\n<h3>Katie Hobbs selects former Republican Mesa mayor as running mate<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherrill backed the idea of voter ID laws in an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BO7iGdo2Yig?si=tL_7vU6tRqiiGkkH&#038;t=713\">interview<\/a> with News 12 in the wake of the news, saying, \u201cI would support that, I don\u2019t have a problem with voter ID.\u201d However, she did put her foot down against President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s championed <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/save-america-act\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"22939\">SAVE America Act<\/a>, which would require a valid, government-issued photo ID to register to vote in a federal election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m very opposed to the SAVE Act,\u201d Sherrill told the local outlet. \u201cI do believe that is just a tool of voter suppression and an attempt to get all of the personal identifying information of New Jerseyans into the federal government\u2019s systems, which I\u2019m opposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sean Higgins, a spokeman for Sherrill, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that the governor is \u201copen to considering proposals\u201d for stronger voter ID laws in the wake of the July news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGovernor Sherrill supports the current rules requiring\u00a0ID\u00a0for\u00a0voter\u00a0registration and she is open to considering proposals to strengthen those to make sure we have the strongest, fairest elections in the nation,\u201d Higgins said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the state <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/voter.svrs.nj.gov\/register\">Division of Elections<\/a>, to register to vote, New Jerseyans are required to show a valid\u00a0driver\u2019s license or ID card issued by the state Motor Vehicle Commission\u00a0or present the state with their Social Security number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sherrill spokesman did, however, double down on the New Jersey governor\u2019s stance against election security reform coming from \u201cMAGA Republicans,\u201d calling their efforts \u201cvoter suppression attempts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGovernor Sherrill served our country in the military and as a public servant because she believes in every citizen\u2019s right to participate in our democracy by voting,\u201d Higgins said. \u201cThat\u2019s why she has stood firm against MAGA Republicans voter suppression attempts and Trump\u2019s demands for New Jersey voters\u2019 personal identifiable information.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of Sherrill\u2019s announcement about the noncitizens removed from its voter rolls, the White House used the instance as a pinpoint example of the need for the SAVE America Act. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4657750\/white-house-victory-lap-discovery-6600-noncitizens-new-jersey-voter-rolls\/\">told<\/a> the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in July that \u201call patriotic Americans should join in [Trump\u2019s] effort\u201d to secure federal elections with the SAVE Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/4666077\/new-jersey-keeps-contracts-vendor-gov-sherrill-blames-voter-registration-error\/\">NEW JERSEY KEEPS TWO CONTRACTS WITH VENDOR THAT GOV. SHERRILL BLAMES FOR VOTER REGISTRATION ERROR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherrill <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/4661732\/new-jersey-mikie-sherrill-voter-records-data-breaches-doj-fight-for-noncitizen-identifiers\/\">refused<\/a> a Department of Justice request to turn over information regarding the noncitizens found on the rolls to the Trump administration in late July.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, on Tuesday, several House Republicans wrote a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2026-08-11-jdj-bs-ll-jvd-to-cole-idemia-re-nj-noncitizen-voting.pdf\">letter<\/a> to the software company connected to the scandal, IDEMIA, urging it to release documents and communications on how the noncitizens were placed on the voter rolls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherrill backs voter ID laws after removing 6,600 noncitizens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2643279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26161573108230.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32644,36398,45217,42126,50432],"class_list":["post-2643278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-election-integrity","tag-immigration-issues","tag-mikie-sherrill","tag-voter-id-laws","tag-voter-registration-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26161573108230.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643281,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643278\/revisions\/2643281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2643279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}