SHOCKING: 75,000 Noncitizens Summoned for Jury Duty in New Jersey Every Year as State’s Voter-Roll Scandal Explodes

Approximately 75,000 noncitizens are summoned for jury duty in the Garden State every year, according to newly disclosed figures from the New Jersey judiciary.

The revelation comes as state officials are already scrambling to explain how thousands of self-identified noncitizens were improperly added to New Jersey’s voter rolls and how hundreds reportedly cast ballots.

You cannot make this up.

The New Jersey Globe reported that New Jersey processes more than one million jury summonses annually using records randomly selected from three state agencies: the Division of Elections, the Division of Taxation, and the Motor Vehicle Commission.

Pete McAleer, a spokesman for the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts, said roughly 20% of respondents report that they fail to meet at least one statutory eligibility requirement.

Approximately one-quarter of those disqualifications, an average of roughly 75,000 people annually over the past three years, were because the recipient was not a United States citizen.

Under New Jersey law, only American citizens are eligible to serve on juries.

The judiciary insists safeguards are in place to stop noncitizens from actually serving.

“Prospective jurors are asked about their citizenship and other qualifications when they complete the mandatory juror qualification questionnaire,” McAleer told the New Jersey Globe.

“Those who advance are reminded of the eligibility requirements during jury orientation and are directly questioned about their citizenship during jury selection by the judge and, as permitted, the attorneys,” he added.

Officials say there is no evidence that noncitizens have served on juries since the additional safeguards were implemented.

But that does not explain why approximately 75,000 noncitizens are being swept into the jury-summons process every year.

It also raises serious questions about the reliability of government databases used to administer elections and jury selection.

The Department of Homeland Security amplified the report Saturday, writing:

75,000 NONCITIZENS are called for jury duty in New Jersey EVERY YEAR. It’s clear New Jersey’s government databases are unreliable in ensuring only Americans are participating in our civic institutions.

🚨75,000 NONCITIZENS are called for jury duty in New Jersey EVERY YEAR.

It’s clear New Jersey’s government databases are unreliable in ensuring only Americans are voting in AMERICAN elections and serving in jury pools. pic.twitter.com/BWMOUMg7Mn

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 25, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Democrat Governor Mikie Sherrill recently admitted that a “serious software error” in the state’s motor-vehicle system resulted in approximately 6,600 people who explicitly indicated they were not American citizens being registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.

According to Sherrill, fewer than 400 of those improperly registered individuals subsequently voted.

The Justice Department has since opened an investigation into the scandal.

Sherrill attempted to blame IDEMIA, the software contractor that transmits voter-registration information collected by the Motor Vehicle Commission.

But IDEMIA fired back, explaining that it merely transmitted the applications and that New Jersey’s own Division of Elections was responsible for reviewing the information and determining voter eligibility.

“Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections,” the company said, as The Gateway Pundit reported.

The jury duty numbers explode the scope of the same underlying failure. The same polluted government databases that dumped noncitizens onto the voter rolls are feeding the jury pools.

Voting has no equivalent real-time citizenship verification. Automatic voter registration through the Motor Vehicle Commission simply trusts the system, a system that has repeatedly proven it cannot distinguish a citizen from a noncitizen.

Micah Rasmussen of Rider University’s Rebovich Institute told The New Jersey Globe, the fact that jury selection is now demonstrably contaminated “widens the scope of the problem and heightens the need to act quickly and thoroughly to resolve it.”