But the company blamed for this alleged error is pushing back on that claim. 

IDEMIA is a French multinational company that specializes in biometrics and cryptography, specifically related to identity services. The company secured a contract with New Jersey’s Department of Motor Vehicles a few years ago. 

“The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote,” IDEMIA said in a statement. “Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections. IDEMIA’s role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system.” 

In other words, IDEMIA says it worked with the voter information provided by the state and had nothing to do with getting more than 6,600 illegal voters onto New Jersey state rolls. 

This should be a major scandal. But the story is already being memory-holed by most of the legacy media, with many dismissing the claims as an anomaly that doesn’t reflect a more widespread problem. 

As of Friday afternoon, the New York Times has devoted exactly one story to this scandal, which fully accepts Sherrill’s account that the software company is to blame for the “error.” 

On the cable news side from the Left, CNN has largely used the story to continue to claim that President Donald Trump was still pushing a voter fraud narrative that doesn’t exist outside of a handful of small examples that have no real impact. 

Predictably, ABC has gone down the same path as well. 

All of this comes after Trump delivered a primetime address on July 16 to make the case that voter fraud is a serious issue that should be one deserving of a bipartisan effort to tackle. 

“Every American, whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, independent, or otherwise, should be able to agree that we deserve the most secure, honest, and fair election system anywhere in the world,” Trump said. “Secure elections should be a partisan — really, should just, we should be together — Democrats, Republicans, independents, everybody — and it should not be a partisan issue. It should cause to unite us, not to divide us.”

Of course, if you were watching ABC, NBC, or CNN that night, you never saw the president’s remarks live because those networks refused to carry the address out of fear of not being able to edit Trump in real time. And afterward, the address immediately received widespread dismissal and mockery from the same people who insisted, without evidence, that Russia had hacked and stolen the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. Ultimately, the Mueller report released three years later made that claim a punchline. 

“People are talking about this speech tonight like we talk about the explosive diarrhea cases all across the country — that it’s gross, that it’s ugly, that it’s bad, that it shouldn’t be going on, that it should be stopped,” CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter said. “But the speech is going forward. So the major networks in this country have a really tough decision to make tonight about how to cover the speech, whether to show it live, whether to interrupt if the lies become so serious. I think we should start from the premise that most Americans disapprove of Trump and don’t believe his election lies.”

Jonathan Karl, ABC News: “The intelligence community — in the very documents Trump himself declassified — assessed that one of the most damaging things a foreign adversary could do would be to falsely convince the American people that their elections had been rigged.  The person who has attempted to do exactly that — over and over, for nearly six years, and most dramatically on Thursday night — is Donald Trump, who, contrary to the very evidence he himself presented, tried to tell millions of Americans that foreign powers had corrupted an election.”

Gavin Newsom (D), governor of California and potential 2028 presidential hopeful, said, “Well, the only thing missing tonight from Donald Trump’s speech was tin foil,” Newsom said of Trump’s conspiracy-laden claims. “This was a legitimate 25th Amendment moment, the ramblings of a mad king.” 

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and another potential 2028 presidential hopeful chimed in, too: “The world’s most famous sore loser will deliver a primetime presidential sour-grapes address to pursue his six-year-old grievances about the 2020 election.”

But here’s the most incredible statement: Even after Sherrill shared that more than 6,600 illegal immigrants were given the opportunity to vote, she still decided to portray Trump as an unhinged conspiracy theorist with “zero evidence” that voter fraud exists. 

“Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity. For the past 10 years, he’s cried wolf and peddled bizarre conspiracy theories about fraud with no evidence,” the governor said. 

Talk about hubris. Because when it comes to theories about fraud with zero evidence, Trump now has more than 6,600 pieces of evidence out of New Jersey alone… that we know about. 

On CNN, anchor Abby Phillip dutifully pushed the Democrat response with vigor when challenging Scott Jennings on Tuesday night. 

PHILLIP: “What’s your definition of widespread, by the way? Is it 1%? Is it 2%?” 

JENNINGS: “What’s your tolerance for this?”

PHILLIP: “This is not about tolerance, this is about … is it widespread or is it something that is relatively rare, Scott?”

JENNINGS: “You’re pounding him over the word widespread. I just would ask you, what is your tolerance for any fraud at all?” 

PHILLIP: “Is it widespread?” 

JENNINGS: “Absolutely! Over 6,000 people.” 

PHILLIP: “What is your bar for widespread?” 

JENNINGS: “My bar is I want no tolerance! I have zero tolerance for this! By the way, this isn’t the only place this is happening.”

To prove his point, consider the 2000 election. In the end, George W. Bush ultimately won Florida by 537 votes out of more than 6 million cast. For context, that’s 0.00895% of the vote. That difference changed the course of history.

Now consider the 2020 election: Trump lost three states that would have handed him the election by 10,000 votes in Arizona, 12,000 votes in Georgia, and 20,000 votes in Wisconsin out of tens of millions cast. Joe Biden won each by less than 1 percentage point. 

Was fraud widespread in those states? Likely not. Could it have existed, even on a small level, to the point where it could have flipped by a percentage point the other way? 

Given the backdrop of what we just learned in New Jersey, is that an unfair question to at least discuss? 

In the 2022 midterms, 40 House races were decided by 5 percentage points or less. One race was even — Lauren Boebert (R) defeated Adam Frisch (D) by a margin of 0.17%, or 546 votes out of more than 300,000 votes cast. Boebert’s margin was 540 votes more than the closest race in 2020. In that race, Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) defeated Rita Hart (D) in Iowa by six votes out of nearly 400,000 cast. Overall, according to the Cook Political Report, there were 15 House races decided by less than 2 percentage points in 2022. 

DAVID HARSANYI: NEITHER PARTY IS TALKING ABOUT WHAT VOTERS ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT

Democrats and the majority of the press used to insist voter fraud isn’t a big deal. Nothing to see here. But with so many previous races coming down to such small margins, even a so-called small amount is enough to decide power in Washington. 

The cat is totally out of the bag after what we are witnessing in New Jersey. It’s time for Republicans to finally do something about it.