New Jersey noncitizen-voting mess is tip of an iceberg Mikie Sherrill hopes you won’t notice

New Jersey’s noncitizen-voter scandal is proving a lot less simple that Gov. Mikie Sherrill claimed.

She fingered an outside vendor for a software “glitch” that led to the state registering 6,600 noncitizens as voters, with some 400 actually casting ballots.

But her scapegoat, French tech firm IDEMIA, says it did nothing wrong —- giving Jersey the data it requested and even warning about the potential “error.”

This is no fly-by-night company: IDEMIA provides TSA PreCheck services and Motor Voter technology in dozens of states.

And it was contracted to simply collect self-reported citizenship info and voter-registration interest, then send it along to the state Division of Elections, which manages voter enrollment.

In other words, it was Jersey’s Democrat-run agency that screwed up, albeit under then-Gov. Phil Murphy . . .  who championed Sherrill as his successor.

Note, too, that Sherrill’s team learned of the mess a week before she came clean, as the feds were thundering about nearly 270,000 noncitizens they’d ID’d on voter rolls across Jersey and three other states — more than 35,000 of them in the Garden State. 

The Justice Department gave Sherrill five days to hand over the names, addresses and voting records of the thousands of noncitizens her DOE wrongly put on the rolls.

And Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin is demanding records of every illegally registered person in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and Nevada.

All this comes as these and other blue states refuse to share their complete voter-roll data with the feds.

Sherrill is continuing Murphy’s stonewall, insisting she wants to protect New Jerseyans’ personal info — and blaming President Donald Trump for casting doubt on election security.

Naturally, she doesn’t note that his gripe is largely with how Democrats have undermined confidence with a long list of fraud-friendly “reforms” from mass mail-in voting to legalized third-party “ballot harvesting” to automated voter registration — and, of course, an adamant refusal to require voter-ID, as the vast majority of Americans support.

All of which makes it look like Mikie’s scapegoating, stonewalling and sidestepping is about trying to protect her party, not her constituents.