New Jersey A 509: Provides for agreement between Secretary of State and AOC to match information in Statewide voter registration system with certain jury records in order to identify and remove ineligible non-citizen voter registrants from system.

Bill Text

A509 

ASSEMBLY, No. 509 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ROBERT AUTH

District 39 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen McGuckin and Inganamort

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides for agreement between Secretary of State and 
AOC to match information in Statewide voter registration system with certain 
jury records in order to identify and remove ineligible non-citizen voter 
registrants from system.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning the maintenance and integrity of the 
Statewide voter registration system, 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.)] 
52 U.S.C. s.21083 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, 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 Attorney General 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.��� The Attorney General, in 
consultation with each county commissioner of registration, shall develop 
minimum standards to safeguard the 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.

���� e.��� (1) The Attorney General 
and the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission in the 
Department of Transportation shall enter into an agreement to match information 
in the database of the Statewide voter registration system with information in 
the database of the commission, including social security numbers, to the 
extent required to enable verification of the accuracy of the information 
provided on applications for voter registration.

���� (2)� The Attorney General 
shall enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Health 
[and Senior 
Services] to 
match information in the database of the Statewide voter registration system 
with State agency information on death records.

���� (3)� The Attorney General 
shall enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of 
Corrections to match information in the database of the Statewide voter 
registration system with State agency information on individuals who are 
incarcerated, on probation, or on parole as the result of a conviction for an 
indictable offense.

���� (4)� (a) The Attorney 
General s