New Jersey's 75,000-strong annual noncitizen jury-duty pool fuels voter-record debate

New Jersey summons about 75,000 noncitizens for jury duty each year (average over a three-year period), with safeguards intended to prevent ineligible residents from serving. The figure is linked to a broader dispute over state databases that may misidentify noncitizens as citizens in voter and juror records, highlighted by a DMV data glitch that added roughly 6,600 noncitizens to voter rolls (fewer than 400 have voted). The judiciary handles over a million jury summonses annually and screens citizenship through questionnaires, orientation, and jury selection.