Exclusive: The Green Card Holder Who Proves New Jersey Democrats Haven’t Cleaned Up Voter Rolls

A teenage green card holder has discovered she is an active voter on New Jersey’s voting rolls — despite Governor Mikie Sherrill’s claim that she ordered all non-citizens to be expunged.Italian-born green card holder, Ilaria Giugliano, who lives with her family on the Jersey Shore, tells The New York Sun that receiving a sample ballot in the mail was “disturbing.” Public records show that Ms. Giugliano, 19, is an active voter with an effective registration date of her 18th birthday in September 2025. It comes after Ms. Sherrill disclosed in July that 6,600 non-citizen voters were on the state’s rolls. She blamed the problem on a software “glitch” and ordered that they all be removed. In August, state officials said they deleted 5,100 registrations and another 1,450 were pending local investigation. The Governor said her administration was “reviewing our records with a fine-toothed comb, to preserve the integrity of our voter rolls.”But Ms. Giugliano disclosed to the Sun that she has received a sample ballot for this year’s general election — as she has done for elections in the past two years “You don’t know if they’re doing it to anyone else, if they took someone’s vote by accident or on purpose,” Ms. Giugliano tells the Sun.Ms. Giugliano has never voted and is seeking U.S. citizenship.“It’s very disturbing that this is happening,” her stepfather, Giuseppe Barone, an American citizen, tells the Sun. “I’m not Republican nor Democrat, I call it how it is and apparently there’s a lot of fraud going on out there.” State Republican party chair, Christine Hanlon, said Ms. Giugliano’s registration is “infuriating,” pointing out it took effect outside the June 2023 to June 2024 window identified by the Governor as when non-citizen registrations occurred.“It’s more evidence this is a much bigger problem than the state wants anyone to believe,” she tells the Sun.Republicans in the state have urged the Sherrill administration to divulge more information about the non-citizen registrations and the August deletion of ineligible voters.Republicans in Congress have demanded documents from the Sherrill administration, but so far say they have received a paltry response. On Wednesday, the House Administration and House Judiciary Committees subpoenaed the Sherrill administration for documents.The Trump administration is eyeing New Jersey as it attempts to root out noncitizens who illegally vote. The Department of Homeland Security has investigated about 44 groups in the state. Ms. Sherrill called the investigations “spurious.”The crux of New Jersey’s non-citizen voting imbroglio is voter registration through the state Motor Vehicle Commission. Starting in 2021, illegal aliens became eligible for standard driver’s licenses. Ms. Sherrill claimed a third-party vendor, the French company IDEMIA, inadvertently registered non-citizens to vote through a software “glitch” between June 2023 and June 2024. IDEMIA blamed state officials who did not check records when they were sent from the MVC to the state Secretary of State.The Governor tasked her Secretary of State — who at the time was Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell — with correcting the issue. But in late September, Ms. Sherrill demanded Mr. Caldwell’s resignation after an investigation said he was guilty of sexual harassment. Mr. Caldwell resigned and was replaced in the post by Acting Secretary of State Shirley Emehelu.Ms. Giugliano explains that she went to the Freehold office of the MVC on her 17th birthday in September 2024 to get her driver’s license. She was careful not to represent herself as a U.S. citizen nor request to be registered to vote.“Mostly because I made sure I was texting my mom during it,” she said. “I was like, ‘I’m not a citizen, I don’t press this right?’ So you know for sure I was double checking it, because I was like, ‘well, I don’t want to mess this up.’”In the last days of his governorship early this year, Ms. Sherrill’s Democratic predecessor Phil Murphy signed into law a measure that forced drivers to opt out of automatic registration, rather than opt in like they did before. The bill says all “eligible” citizens who apply for a REAL-ID or nondriver ID card will automatically be registered to vote.Ms. Sherrill has elected to keep the MVC voter registration program up and running despite objections from state Republican lawmakers.Ms. Sherrill’s chief spokesman Sean Higgins failed to provide comment despite repeated requests.

Exclusive: The Green Card Holder Who Proves New Jersey Democrats Haven’t Cleaned Up Voter Rolls

Exclusive: The Green Card Holder Who Proves New Jersey Democrats Haven’t Cleaned Up Voter Rolls

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