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ICYMI: O'Scanlon Sounded Alarm on MVC Voter Registration Safeguards in 2024

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ICYMI: O'Scanlon Sounded Alarm on MVC Voter Registration Safeguards in 2024

Declan O'Scanlon Posted on September 01, 2026

More than two years before Governor Sherrill revealed that thousands of non-citizens were improperly registered to vote in New Jersey, Senator Declan O'Scanlon (R-Monmouth) raised concerns about vulnerabilities in the state's voter registration system and Trenton Democrats' implementation of automatic voter registration at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC).

During a Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting on April 11, 2024, Senator O'Scanlon questioned then-Acting MVC Chief Administrator Latrecia Littles-Floyd about the safeguards between the MVC and voter registration systems, including how the agency ensured that undocumented individuals obtaining driver's licenses were not subsequently prompted to register to vote or improperly registered.

O'Scanlon specifically pressed Littles-Floyd on whether the state was essentially relying on an "honor system" by asking individuals whether they were U.S. citizens before determining their voter registration eligibility.

The exchange came years before the state acknowledged that thousands of individuals who had indicated at the MVC that they were not U.S. citizens and were nevertheless automatically registered.

Watch Sen. O'Scanlon's exchange online.

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