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House committee seeks IDEMIA records in N.J. voter registration probe

August 12, 2026 10:15 am

The House Judiciary Committee is seeking documents and communications between IDEMIA and the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission to resolve conflicting accounts from Gov. Mikie Sherrill and the MVC vendor over who was responsible for transmitting information that led to...

Cooper, Perkins-Auguste face off for Union County clerk nomination

August 6, 2026 6:40 pmAugust 6, 2026 6:46 pm

Two Democrats will face off at a special Union County Democratic convention on August 18 to pick a candidate to succeed Joanne Rajoppi, who held the post for three decades before her death last month. Tahirah “Tai” Cooper, an official...

A look at federal, county and municipal races in Bergen County in 2026

August 5, 2026 6:52 amAugust 4, 2026 8:40 pm

For generations, Bergen County was the place where Republican statewide campaigns lived or died. Before Chris Christie rewrote New Jersey’s electoral map in 2009 by running up enormous margins in the fast-growing Republican counties of Ocean, Monmouth and Morris –...

MVC tells noncitizens mistakenly registered to vote to seek removal from rolls

July 25, 2026 5:55 pm

The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission is advising noncitizens who were mistakenly registered to vote due to a software error to contact election officials and request removal from the voter rolls. Meanwhile, the New Jersey Division of Elections will remove...

A look at federal, county and municipal races in Cape May County in 2026

July 21, 2026 2:35 pmJuly 21, 2026 4:31 pm

Cape May, New Jersey’s southernmost county, has been one of the Republican Party’s most reliable sources of votes for more than 160 years. Abraham Lincoln lost the county in 1860 but carried it in 1864, beginning a Republican presidential streak...

New Jersey discloses 6,600 non-citizens were on New Jersey voter rolls after motor vehicles software error in 2023 and 2024

July 21, 2026 11:55 amJuly 21, 2026 12:04 pm

A serious software error at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission led to roughly 6,600 non-citizens being erroneously added to the state’s voter rolls between June 2023 and June 2024, beginning nearly three years before Gov. Mikie Sherrill took office....

Jeremy Feigenbaum, New Jersey’s first solicitor general, will leave state government

July 21, 2026 10:02 amJuly 21, 2026 11:55 am

Jeremy Feigenbaum, New Jersey’s first solicitor general and one of the most consequential lawyers ever to serve in state government, will leave office on September 10 after six years overseeing the state’s most significant constitutional and appellate litigation. Feigenbaum, 37,...