{"id":303962,"date":"2026-07-23T18:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:26:35","slug":"nj-noncitizen-voter-scandal-spurs-call-for-answers-about-tech-companys-role-in-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303962\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ noncitizen voter scandal spurs call for answers about tech company\u2019s role in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York state pols are demanding answers from Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s administration and elections officials amid the unfolding scandal in New Jersey <\/a>where thousands of non-citizens were registered to vote.<\/p>\n

Republican members of the state Assembly, in a letter obtained by The Post Wednesday, called for a hearing to examine whether New York voter rolls could have been exposed to the same \u201cvulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials in Jersey said Tuesday a software error by a contractor, Idemia, led to 6,000 immigrants being signed up to vote, even though they checked a box indicating they weren\u2019t citizens and therefore weren\u2019t eligible.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul is staying mum about millions of dollars New York spends each year contracting with the same company alleged to have allowed 6,600 non-citizens to register to vote in New Jersey. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

Idemia, the massive identify verification company contracted to help process drivers licenses in New Jersey, also does work for New York\u2019s Department of Motor Vehicles and other agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there is no evidence at this time that New York has experienced a similar failure, the shared vendor relationship, together with the substantial public investment in this technology, warrants prompt legislative oversight to determine whether comparable vulnerabilities exist within New York\u2019s voter registration process,\u201d Assemblyman Matt Slater (R-Putnam), ranking member of the Assembly Elections Committee, wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n

Idemia has billed nearly a quarter billion dollars of work for various Empire State agencies dating back to 2005, including $15.5 million worth of long-term contracts for fingerprinting services entered this year alone, public records show.<\/p>\n

State elections officials rejected any assertion that non-citizens have been added to New York voter rolls, noting that it ultimately falls on them to verify\u00a0whether someone is eligible to vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no indication of such an issue, because New York state does not use any similar external vendor when processing voter registrations,\u201d Kathleen McGrath, a spokesperson for the state Board of Elections told The Post in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Idemia, the company alleged to have mistakenly allowed thousands of non-citizens to register to vote in New Jersey, was highly involved with a recent effort to modernize the New York Department of Motor Vehicles\u2019 systems, a source told The Post. Pavlo Gonchar\/SOPA Images \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cThe voter registration process in New York State is different than in New Jersey, and therefore New York State voter registration is not subject to a software issue like the one that has been reported in New Jersey,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But GOP lawmakers aren\u2019t satisfied with what they consider a lack of clarity about New York\u2019s process for transmitting voter registration information from the DMV \u2014 and urged for more transparency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis statutory framework makes it essential that the technological systems connecting driver\u2019s license transactions to voter registration accurately distinguish between eligible and ineligible applicants,\u201d Slater wrote.<\/p>\n

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New York DMV spokesperson Walter McClure said Idemia \u201chas no involvement in the systems used to transfer voter registration applications from DMV to the Board of Elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDMV does not process the applications but submits them to the State and county boards of elections,\u201d the DMV spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

An Idemia spokesperson said the company\u2019s work in New York is limited to managing the state\u2019s mobile ID program, which is separate from the voter registration process.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the New York Board of Elections said there was no indication non-citizens have been signed up to vote in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cIDEMIA does not provide the same services to the New York Department of Motor Vehicles as those involved in New Jersey\u2019s voter registration workflow. IDEMIA\u2019s work with New York DMV is limited to the state\u2019s Mobile ID program. IDEMIA does not support voter registration processes for New York State,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Gov. Kathy Hochul declined to comment, even as New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill\u00a0released a lengthy statement<\/a>\u00a0and held a press conference saying she was booting Idemia out of the state over the mess.<\/p>\n

In a statement, an Idemia spokesperson said the company was not solely responsible for verifying citizenship status for registered voters in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\u201cIDEMIA\u2019s role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system. The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote. Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections,\u201d the rep said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York state pols are demanding answers from Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s administration and elections officials amid the unfolding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6369,416,68,426,57,6588,1066,9,11,10,49,51,50,58,66439],"class_list":["post-303962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-board-of-elections","tag-elections","tag-exclusive","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-mikie-sherrill","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-us-news","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}