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Checked against the record · New Jersey 7th District 2026

Is Tom Kean Jr. suing New Jersey over noncitizen voting records?

Matches stated record claim. He is a plaintiff in a September 22, 2026 federal suit for voter-list records; it names the secretary of state and five county officials, not the governor.

Thomas H. Kean Jr.

Elections: the voter records lawsuit

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the September 27 debate he said he is suing the governor because she will not say which elections noncitizen voters took part in.

Source: New Jersey Globe

What the record shows · Sep 22, 2026

He is one of four plaintiffs, with the Republican National Committee, the state Republican Party and state Sen. Anthony Bucco, in a federal suit filed September 22, 2026 under the National Voter Registration Act's public records provision. The defendants are Secretary of State Dale Caldwell, who is also lieutenant governor, and election officials in Bergen, Middlesex, Hudson, Union and Somerset counties.

Sources: U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (via CourtListener RECAP)

Limit: The governor is not a named defendant; the suit names her secretary of state, who runs elections, and five county officials. It seeks voter-list maintenance records, including records of people removed as non-citizens; it does not ask which elections they voted in. The court has not ruled.

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