{"id":368061,"date":"2026-10-08T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368061\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:20:08","slug":"former-nj-mayor-urges-trump-admin-to-monitor-state-election-after-hundreds-of-non-citizens-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368061\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NJ mayor urges Trump admin to monitor state election after hundreds of non-citizens voted"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Former Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjac is urging the Trump administration to dispatch federal election monitors<\/a> to New Jersey in response to revelations about hundreds of non-citizens casting votes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Kranjac penned a missive to Attorney General Todd Blanche<\/a> and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Robert Frazer arguing that the Garden State\u2019s voter roll issues \u201cwarrant further federal scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state has not disclosed the magnitude of the problem or the identity of non-citizen registered voters, which likely results from our Governor\u2019s continuation of unlawful sanctuary state policies that provide certain protections and services to noncitizens at taxpayer expense,\u201d Kranjac wrote in the letter. <\/p>\n

Former Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjac urged the federal government to intervene in New Jersey. Real America’s voice<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the state\u2019s reluctance to cooperate, my experience as an elected official in the state leads me to believe the problem could be significantly larger than Gov. Mikie Sherrill is willing to admit or confront publicly,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

Kranjac, a Republican, had led the city of Englewood Cliffs, which is home to CNBC\u2019s headquarters, from 2016 to 2024.<\/p>\n

In July, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced that 6,600 people who answered \u201cno\u201d to a question about whether they had US citizenship were added to the voter rolls and about 400 of them cast ballots in elections dating back to 2023.<\/p>\n

She blamed it on a \u201cserious software error\u201d in the state\u2019s Motor Vehicle System involving a vendor, French tech company IDEMIA. But IDEMIA disputed her characterizations of that. <\/p>\n

Instead, the firm, which said it wasn\u2019t tasked with putting those voters on the rolls, insisted that the state had access to data indicating those individuals weren\u2019t US citizens. It is against the law for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. <\/p>\n

Hundreds of non-citizens cast ballots in New Jersey elections over recent years, state officials revealed over the summer. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n

All of that came against the backdrop of the Department of Homeland Security suggesting that over 35,000 non-citizens<\/a> may be on the voter rolls. Sherrill publicly claimed over the summer that her team wasn\u2019t given adequate information about that. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe just says what people want to hear, but she didn\u2019t actually give names,\u201d Kranjac told The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s all still anonymous. I don\u2019t think the Department of Justice has been able to get it out of her. Quite frankly, she should be brought in front of Congress and made to testify.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his letter, Kranjac further stressed that \u201c[e]very eligible citizen has an interest in knowing that lawful votes are not diluted by ballots cast by those who are ineligible to participate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gov. Mikie Sherrill blamed vendor IDEMIA for the voter roll snafu and has ordered an investigation. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n

Kranjac pointed out that New Jersey typically has one of the highest percentages of foreign-born residents who aren\u2019t eligible to run for election of any state in the country, according to the Census<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]heir President incited an insurrection on the nation\u2019s Capitol, killing innocent people, so he could continue his lie that he wasn\u2019t handily beaten in 2020, and is now weaponizing the Federal government to try to suppress the votes of millions of people across the country,\u201d a Sherrill spokesperson said in response, bashing Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump and his followers know the American people are about to soundly reject his corruption, his reckless and endless war in Iran, and his driving up prices for every family, and to stop it, they are trying to keep Americans from voting.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to wanting more federal election monitors, he also wants the Trump administration to investigate potential illegal voting, ensure that the voter rolls are cleaned up, and get clarity on the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s suggestion that there are over 35,000 non-citizens on the voting rolls. <\/p>\n

Blanche has defended the Trump administration\u2019s plans to conduct federal oversight of elections during the midterm cycle. <\/p>\n

\u201cSince the \u201960s, the Department of Justice has monitored elections. Every single election has been monitored,\u201d Blanche told \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d \u201cPresident Trump is doing the same thing that every single administration has done in our generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis happens in every single election. And of course, we\u2019re going to do it. Of course, we\u2019re going to make sure the law is followed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Former Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjac is urging the Trump administration to dispatch federal election monitors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68,1082,46937,1066,9,11,10,49,51,50,87,58,66439],"class_list":["post-368061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-exclusive","tag-justice-department","tag-midterm-elections-2026","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-politics","tag-us-news","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368061","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=368061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}