Plot Thickens – New Jersey Data Contractor Says Noncitizens Registering to Vote Not Our Error

The contractor responsible for the software used by the New Jersey Dept of Motor Vehicles to uplink voter registration to the state elections office is now saying their software did not cause 6,600 illegal aliens to be registered voters.

Someone in New Jersey government had to create that link to register the voters.

The USA Today has responses from IDEMIA, a France-based company that provides technology for issuing identity documents also used by 36 different states.

[…] IDEMIA spokeswoman Lisa Shoemaker told USA TODAY on July 23 that “the characterization that a glitch occurred is not accurate.”

”There was no glitch or software error,” said Shoemaker, whose firm also handles a wide array of federal contracts, including TSA Pre-Check at airports and “biometric and secure identity solutions” at the Pentagon.

[…] IDEMIA, which says it produces the majority of drivers’ licenses in the United States, has contracts with motor vehicle departments in 36 states.

Shoemaker told USA TODAY the firm followed the written specifications issued by New Jersey in 2023, when it won a contract to collect self-attested responses, including a box to check about interest in registering to vote for people applying for or renewing a driver’s license or state-issued identification card.

Those written specifications, Shoemaker said, included the order of the questions. First, would you like to register to vote? Second, are you a U.S. citizen? And third − and only for those who answered yes to citizenship − select a party affiliation.

The state tested the software itself and approved it for deployment in 2023, Shoemaker told USA TODAY. (read more).

Suspicious Cat remains, well, increasingly suspicious.

UNESCO adds Normandy's D-Day landing beaches to World Heritage List

 The D-Day landing beaches in Normandy were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List Sunday. The 80-kilometre stretch of coastline in northwest France served as the site for Allied forces' landing in Europe in June 1944, marking a decisive moment in the war against Nazi Germany and its fascist allies in Europe.   

 

 

World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a UN committee meeting in South Korea reviewing dozens of nominations.

The French designation covers the five Normandy landing beaches – Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold and Juno – where more than 150,000 Allied troops came ashore on June 6, 1944, along with the Pointe du Hoc assault site, all central to the campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.  

 

 International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), which evaluates submissions to the heritage committee, said the sites contain extensive remnants, from German fortifications and bomb-scarred landscapes to Allied harbour structures and sunken vessels, marking an “event widely perceived as having enabled the return of freedom and heralded a lasting peace on the European continent”.  

 

 "This decision places a responsibility upon us," said Hervé Morin, president of the Normandy Region. 

 

 "It compels us to preserve this property, to protect it, to cherish it even more, and to promote its value," he added.  

 https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260726-unesco-adds-normandy-d-day-landing-beaches-to-world-heritage-list

 A blockhaus is seen on the "Pointe du Hoc", a clifftop in Cricqueville-en-Bessin, on the French western Norman coast, on March 24, 2009  

 

 

We Now Have the Truth About That Viral ICE Story That Sparked Massive Riots

Townhall 

According to a new report from the Daily Wire, the story about an illegal alien who was arrested while attempting to purchase diapers was completely bogus, and the individual was actually arrested after a violent domestic assault.

Statements and documents obtained by the Daily Wire revealed that Martin Soto, a Peruvian illegal alien, had been arrested by local police after he intentionally caused injury to an unnamed female victim, using “his hands, both opened and closed to strike” before he “placed a hand over” the victim’s “mouth so she could not scream for help.” The attack caused “minor scratches and cuts” to the victim’s face. 

Soto’s wife, Gabriela, had claimed that her husband was taken by ICE while attempting to purchase diapers for their son. She eventually led the viral protests that would later devolve into riots outside of Delany Hall in Newark, New Jersey. The story of Soto’s detainment was covered widely by members of the mainstream media. The Soto family would later monetize the story through a fundraiser that made $67 thousand.

A major incident that occurred as a result of the rioting was the arrest of Nicholas Matthew Scelfo, who authorities say threatened to kill the family of an ICE agent nearly two months ago.

Soto entered the United States illegally in January of 2024. He is currently being held in Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey.