New Jersey Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. Bucco (R-Morris, Passaic) and Senator Kristin Corrado (R-Bergen, Essex, Passaic) are leading the charge to restore confidence in New Jersey’s elections following the revelation that at least 6,600 non-citizens were registered to vote, leading to hundreds of non-citizens voting illegally.
Sen. Bucco and Sen. Corrado introduced S-4616, that would immediately enact three commonsense safeguards:
Eliminate automatic voter registration at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission
Implement voter identification requirements in all future elections
Conduct biannual, independent, and transparent audits to clean up our voter rolls
"New Jerseyans need more than just excuses and finger pointing, they deserve action, and there are commonsense steps we can take right now,” said Sen. Bucco. “Get the Motor Vehicle Commission out of the voter registration business, implement voter identification requirements, and establish regular audits to clean up our voter rolls. These are straightforward safeguards that can be put in place immediately while we continue to uncover how this disaster happened. We can take action today to correct the obvious problems, but the Legislature has a responsibility to investigate how we got here and make sure this never happens again.”
"Removing the MVC from the voter registration process, requiring voter ID, and conducting regular audits of our voter rolls are the obvious safeguards we should be implementing right now," said Sen. Corrado. “But New Jersey cannot simply fix the symptoms and move on. We need a complete accounting of what happened, who knew about it, when they knew, why warnings were ignored, and what additional reforms are necessary to ensure a breach of public trust of this magnitude never happens again.”
You can read the full bill here.
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