Jared Kushner is registered to vote in both New Jersey and New York.
Kushner, who is both President Donald Trump’s son in law and an advisor to Trump as the president. Kushner now joins a list of people close to Trump who are or were registered to vote in two states, including Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, and his chief strategist Stephen Bannon.
Steven Mnuchin, who Trump handpicked to head the Treasury Department, is also reportedly registered in two states.
It’s a high-profile example of how easy it is for someone to be registered in two states, and it’s even more pertinent considering Trump’s recent declaration that he would be launching a “major investigation” into his oft-repeated claims that millions of people voted illegally in November and cost him the popular vote.
“You have people that are registered who are dead, who are illegals, who are in two states,” the president told ABC’s David Muir on Wednesday. “You have people registered in two states. They’re registered in a New York and a New Jersey. They vote twice. There are millions of votes, in my opinion.”
The fact of the matter is that it is not illegal to be registered in two states, and being registered twice does not mean that someone voted twice. It’s not uncommon for voters to have registrations in two states because of moves or other circumstances.
“It’s not fraud,” said John Lindback, executive director of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). “When people move from one state to another or move down the street, they don’t think to change their voter registration.”