Audit Finds Problems with California ‘Motor Voter’ Program – IOTW Report

Audit Finds Problems with California ‘Motor Voter’ Program

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The California DMV’s new voter registration program is confusing to voters and full of technical difficulties, leading to hundreds of thousands of discrepancies in voter registrations sent to the Secretary of State, according to an audit released Friday.

None of the discrepancies in roughly 3 million voter records reviewed by auditors resulted in major voter registration errors, such as putting someone in the wrong political party or allowing someone to vote who should not have, officials from the state Department of Finance said.

But the audit only examined a set of registrations between April and September 2018 and did not rule out the possibility of major errors in other registrations. Last year, DMV officials said one error may have prevented nearly 600 people from voting and another may have allowed about 1,500 people, perhaps including non-citizens, to incorrectly register to vote.

After the report’s release, the Secretary of State’s office said six people who were registered to vote despite opting out cast ballots in 2018. Deputy Secretary of State Paula Valle said the state can’t confirm if the people were legally eligible to vote, but that none of them obtained driver’s licenses under a program for immigrants living in the country illegally.

California launched the “motor voter” program in April 2018, and it automatically registers people to vote when they visit the Department of Motor Vehicles unless they opt out. Potential errors in voter registration and other issues prompted former Gov. Jerry Brown to initiate an audit by the Department of Finance, which then hired the private firm Ernst & Young to help.

At the same time the DMV was rolling out motor voter, it was experiencing a surge in long lines related to Californians seeking new federally mandated identification cards known as “Real ID.” Gov. Gavin Newsom recently named a new head of the agency and included roughly $240 million for DMV improvements and additional staff in the state budget.

The audit found many customers are confused by the voter registration questions they are asked at the DMV and that many people feel “forced to register to vote.” more

12 Comments on Audit Finds Problems with California ‘Motor Voter’ Program

  1. Read this a few times and let it sink in.

    “Deputy Secretary of State Paula Valle said the state can’t confirm if the people were legally eligible to vote, but that none of them obtained driver’s licenses under a program for immigrants living in the country illegally.”

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  2. “The California DMV’s new voter registration program is confusing to voters and full of technical difficulties, leading to hundreds of thousands of discrepancies in voter registrations……”

    How convenient.

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  3. And this is just one thing that’s completely screwed up in California. The laws are strictly applied to U.S. citizens who work for a living but no one else. I couldn’t stand the place anymore and moved to Texas.

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  4. How many of those 84,000 are Illegal Aliens Multiply the 84,,,0 by at least 2-4 and that is how many illegals are registered to vote in California. That is why Motor voter and Giving Illegal Aliens drivers licenses is a formal invitation to voter fraud. NO California federal election should be certified until the voters roles are cleaned up.

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