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Bill Text

S1119 

SENATE, No. 1119 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators A.M.Bucco, Testa, Holzapfel and Space

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires Secretary of State to establish voter list 
maintenance and crosscheck program and to include certain voter registration 
data in annual report to Governor and Legislature.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning voter list maintenance and amending 
P.L.2005, c.145.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.2005, 
c.145 (C.19:31-32) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.� a.� The Statewide voter 
registration system shall replace all other computer or electronic-based 
registry files of voters and other voter registration files established and 
maintained by each county commissioner of registration for voter registration 
and election administration purposes established pursuant to the provisions of 
Title 19 and Title 40 of the Revised Statutes, and shall be the single system 
for storing and managing the official file of registered voters throughout the 
State.� A commissioner may, however, continue to use and maintain as a 
supplement to the system the original and duplicate permanent registration 
binders and voting records and shall continue to use and maintain the signature 
copy registers or polling records provided for in Title 19 of the Revised 
Statutes.

���� b.��� Each county commissioner 
of registration shall be responsible for adding to, deleting from, amending and 
otherwise conducting on a regular basis maintenance for the files of every 
legally registered voter in that commissioner's county as contained in the 
Statewide voter registration system, pursuant to the provisions of section 303 
of Pub.L.107-252 (42 U.S.C. s. 15301 et seq.) and Title 19 of the Revised 
Statutes.� Each commissioner shall be responsible for verifying the accuracy of 
the name, address and other data of registered voters in the commissioner's 
respective county as contained in the system.� The commissioner who receives 
the voter registration forms of individuals who have registered to vote in the 
county or who are re-registering for any reason shall be responsible for 
entering the information on those forms into the system on an expedited basis, 
and electronically transferring into the system the information from online 
voter registration forms completed pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2019, c.382 
(C.19:31-6.4c), including but not limited to forms and information received 
pursuant to chapter 31 of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes.� The information 
the commissioner shall use to update and maintain the system shall be that 
required by subsection c. of section 1 of P.L.2005, c.145 (C.19:31-31).

���� c.���� The Secretary of State 
and each county commissioner of registration shall be responsible for 
developing and providing the technological security measures needed to prevent 
unauthorized access to the Statewide voter registration system established 
pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2005, c.145 (C.19:31-31) and to the information 
for any individual on the system required by subsection c. of section 1 of that 
act.

���� d.��� (1)� The 
Secretary of State, in consultation with each county commissioner of 
registration, shall develop minimum standards to safeguard the security and 
accuracy of the files contained in the Statewide voter registration system.� 
Such standards shall include procedures to ensure that reasonable effort is 
made to remove registrants who are ineligible to vote pursuant to federal or 
State law and to ensure that eligible voters are not removed in error from the 
system.

���� (2)�� The Secretary of 
State, in consultation with each commissioner of registration, shall develop 
and update, as appropriate, a Statewide voter list maintenance and crosscheck 
program.� The purpose of the program shall be to maintain and keep up-to-date a 
secure and accurate Statewide voter registration system.� The program, at a 
minimum, shall provide for the crosschecking of information in the Statewide 
database with information obtained via agreements entered into by the secretary 
pursuant to subsection e. of this section and shall provide for the sharing of 
voter information among each county clerk and commissioner of registration.� 
The secretary, in consultation with each commissioner of registration, shall 
establish uniform standards and procedures for voter list maintenance and 
crosschecking.� At a minimum, the program shall permit a county commissioner of 
registration to verify a new voter registration applicant�s information, update 
information in the Statewide voter registration system, and remove duplicate, 
non-resident, or ineligible voters from the Stat