District Judge Zahid Quraishi wrote that the error had ‘no bearing’ on whether DOJ had a right to the voter rolls.” Trump’s latest gambit was prompted by news that New Jersey accidentally added roughly 6,600 noncitizens to the state’s voter rolls through a glitch in its DMV software, with roughly 400 actually casting ballots in 2023 and 2024 elections. Trump's 0-18 court record on voter data demands reflects a broader pattern of judicial rejection of his election-related claims. Legal experts argue that Trump's DOJ is using the noncitizen voting issue—which affects less than 0.01% of votes cast—as a pretext to gain access to voter databases that could enable partisan purges. Constitutional scholars note that the Framers intentionally distributed election authority between states and the federal government to prevent exactly this type of centralized manipulation.