{"id":64783,"date":"2026-07-24T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64783"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:15:55","slug":"misplaced-blame-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64783","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When thousands of non-citizens were found on New Jersey voter rolls, New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherril blamed a software glitch for the problem. Well, not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2026\/07\/nj-joined-eric-system-that-does-not-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The recent news of illegal aliens registering in mass in NJ, and then voting, is not a surprise and is almost expected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>New Jersey is one of many States that DO NOT use the free Federal SAVE system to check for illegal aliens in their voter registrations or existing voter rolls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>SAVE is an online service administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that provides immigration status and U.S. citizenship information. SAVE only returns verification information. The decision to register or remove a voter remains with state or local election officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As of June 30th, there are 26 states using SAVE for voter-registration or voter-list-maintenance purposes. It processed 198 million cases in 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article includes the following map:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/StatesUsingSAVE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/StatesUsingSAVE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/StatesUsingSAVE.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/StatesUsingSAVE-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/StatesUsingSAVE-500x297.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>New Jersey joined the non-profit ERIC in <a href=\"https:\/\/nj.gov\/state\/press-2022-0809.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August of 2022<\/a> to help clean their voter rolls. Secretary of State Tahesha Way said, \u201cERIC is a powerful step to strengthen New Jersey\u2019s elections by increasing our ability to support eligible voters while also improving the accuracy of our voting rolls.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Obviously, this isn\u2019t working.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Their agreement (<a href=\"https:\/\/ericstates.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/documents\/ERIC-Bylaw-MA-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Section B, pg. 17<\/a>) with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) does not allow NJ, or any other members of ERIC, to communicate or notate to ERIC that a person is a non-citizen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article explains:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This supposed sophisticated voter cleaning operation has in its by-laws that they do not want information that a person is a non-citizen. What\u2019s even more bizarre, ERIC doesn\u2019t use the SAVE system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1707490\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1707490\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1707490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eric-noncitizen-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eric-noncitizen-1.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eric-noncitizen-1-300x54.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"183\" \/><\/strong><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1707490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>ERIC by-laws do not allow non-citizen info.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>After President Trump was elected, he mandated enhancements to the SAVE system. There were several major changes. You could now bulk process voter lists. It now uses SSA data during citizenship verification. It now allows searches by Name, DOB, and last four of SS# instead of just the Alien Registration Number or I-94 number.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The SAVE system used to cost $1 per transaction. If you wanted to check, let\u2019s say, 40,000 voters on your rolls, you would get a bill for $40 grand. These kinds of fees prevented many election administrators from using the system in bulk. Trump made it free and encouraged bulk processing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>New Jersey isn\u2019t alone with the recurring problem of registering anyone, even illegals. Many other States have had to disclose they are registering non-citizens automatically.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As we mentioned above, members of ERIC are hamstrung with bylaws that restrict the use of tagging non-citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">So, was the ERIC system purposely designed to hide illegals among our American citizen voter rolls?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So why would any American want to keep illegals on the voting rolls?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When thousands of non-citizens were found on New Jersey voter rolls, New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherril blamed a software glitch for the problem. Well, not so fast. On Wednesday, The Gateway Pundit reported: The recent news of illegal aliens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64783\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16375,19847,19097,19849,11716,19848],"class_list":["post-64783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-electronic-registration-information-center-eric","tag-federal-save-system","tag-new-jersey-governor-mikie-sherrill","tag-new-jersey-voter-rolls","tag-the-gateway-pundit","tag-u-s-citizenship-and-immigration-services-uscis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64785,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64783\/revisions\/64785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}