Thread: 1,500 and counting: California's DMV registers noncitizens to vote

1,500 and counting: California's DMV registers noncitizens to vote

Suddenly, 1,500 more illegally registered voters in California turn up. What a coincidence!

October 9, 2018
By Monica Showalter

Following its admission a month ago that it screwed up 23,000 voter registrations, California's Department of Motor Vehicles has admitted another one: registering 1,500 foreigners to vote in U.S. elections.

That's some record they've got, and anyone who thinks there isn't more coming is more than naïve.
The Los Angeles Times report, once again, suggested there was nothing to worry about; they've got it all fixed:

"We have worked quickly with the Department of Technology to correct these errors and have also updated the programming and added additional safeguards to improve this process," DMV Director Jean Shiomoto said in a written statement.

...adding that the errantly registered foreigners were all de-registered, although their mail-in ballots, ahem, did go out. They claim to have fixed the bar codes to ensure that anyone mailing the votes back will not be counted.
Yeah, sure.
At the bottom of its piece, the LAT wheels out the money question every reader is wondering: whether illegals were registered to vote. Once again, it says there's no problem:

Though [Canadian voter and DMV-registered U.S. voter] Marquis is not a U.S. citizen, he is legally allowed to live and work in the country. DMV officials have said that those who are not – and who can be issued a special California driver'a [sic] license as a result – are treated uniquely by the department's computer system and have not been registered to vote in error.

The whole thing raises the question of whether the DMV really is capable of handling automotive registrations for both legal and illegal residents as well as voter registrations that include mail-in ballots.
We are seeing a repeated pattern of blunders on the part of the staff and have valid reason to question whether those were the only errors, or just the ones they can't get out of admitting to.
What's more, none of this includes illegally registered voters who lied on their applications and claimed to be U.S. citizens eligible to vote. The DMV, after all, operates on an "honor system" and doesn't actually check. Those illegally registered voters may well number in the high thousands, given the voter registration efforts of open borders groups in illegal-alien enclaves of Los Angeles County, as well as the helpful efforts of the Mexican consulates to get their...nationals? the people they are charged to serve?...all registered to vote in the U.S. elections.
The secretary of state, Alex Padilla, says he is calling for an independent audit, which is the least he can do (actually, I am surprised he did, given the sense that Democrats rather like having foreign voters on the rolls), which suggests a serious situation that may mean that the DMV is underreporting its problems. Or it may mean he's got someone not all that independent in mind to sweep the matter under the rug for him.
There are real issues here, not the least of which is an agency issuing both drivers licenses and voter registrations and failing miserably at that. Secondarily, as the registrations head for the office of the secretary of state, there's the compounded problem of mail-in ballots, which are convenient for illegal voters in that they involve no possibility of intercept by the Migra in the way illegally showing up at the voting booth might. Great vote if you can get it.
What's more, the L.A. Times didn't explain much about why this could have happened, which suggests that the DMV likely didn't tell the paper, and therefore there's some information the agency doesn't want the Times to know. The 23,000 error earlier was explained as an error of DMV employees not clearing their registration screens. The 1,500 foreigners registered to vote in California got no explanation at all, just that it happened and they claim to have fixed it, despite all those mail-in ballots going out.
Is there more to this? It sounds as though there's more to this. Perhaps we will have to wait for the supposedly independent audit.
But what's most likely is that Trump Will Have Been Right Again about California's compromised voter registration system. If this isn't a call to clean up this dirty system and restore the DMV to its original mission, what is?

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Executive Order

Deem ALL drivers licenses issued to illegal aliens null and void!

If they get pulled over, apprehend them, deport them, impound the vehicle and sell it at auction!

Get them off our roads, out of our voting booths, and OUT of our country now!

Non-citizens may have voted in California’s primary

https://www.facebook.com/foxandfrien...1161710545221/

JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS... DEMS ARE LOOKING FOR VOTES IN THE FORM OF ILLEGALS... THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T LOSE THE HOUSE OR THE SENATE.... PATRIOTS, OUR COUNTRY IS IN JEOPARDY!!!

Incompetent Alex Padilla allows minors to vote

October 12, 2018

When LA County purged 118,000 lawful citizens from the voter rolls on Election Day, we were told it was a printing error.

When DMV incorrectly registered 23,000 people to vote, we were told it was a training error.

When DMV registered 1,500 people to vote, many who were ineligible to vote because they were non-citizens, we were told that the DMV was incapable of handling voter registrations.

Now we are hearing reports that minors who were pre-registered to vote under Padilla’s pet project are receiving illegal ballots across the state.

Who is Padilla going to blame for this mistake?



The California Secretary of State is the Chief Election Officer. They are responsible for administering and maintaining the voter rolls under both Federal and State law.

Alex Padilla is trying to pass the buck when the buck stops with him. Alex Padilla needs to stop blaming printers and the DMV for programs that he is ultimately responsible for. Alex Padilla has shown he is incompetent to administer California’s elections and needs to be replaced.

According to MIT, California has the third worst elections in the United States. California cannot afford four more years of Incompetent Padilla.

#ElectionsMatter
https://www.markmeuser.com/incompete...inors-to-vote/

86 Kern County residents were improperly registered to vote by DMV

• By SAM MORGEN smorgen@bakersfield.com
• Oct 11, 2018

Voters cast their ballots at a polling place in Mountain View.
Danny Howard / CALmatters


The Kern County Elections Department says 86 Kern County residents were improperly registered by the California Department of Motor Vehicles in two separate instances of mistaken registrations identified by the department this fall.

Earlier this week, the DMV announced an internal audit had revealed 1,500 mistaken registrations. A total of 22 were residents of Kern County, said Karen Rhea, assistant Kern County auditor-controller.

In September, the DMV announced it had sent the Secretary of State’s office 23,000 inaccurate voter registrations, of which 64 were Kern County residents.


The DMV has since worked to rectify both batches of registration errors. The Kern County Elections Office has cancelled the voter registrations of all those identified by the DMV.

Rhea said the Elections Department had been contacted by at least one person who identified themselves as someone who had been improperly registered to vote and requested to be taken off the rolls.

Rhea noted that just because someone had been registered to vote did not mean that they had voted.

California residents have the option of registering to vote when they apply or reapply for a state driver's license through the new “motor voter” law, which came into effect in April.

Secretary of State Alex Padilla has said he may recommend freezing the program until the errors could be sorted out.

He called the errors unacceptable.

In the first batch of errors, reported in September, 23,000 voter registrations were compromised with mistakes such as a person being registered to a party they did not choose.

In the most recent announcement, individuals who should not have been eligible to register, were unintentionally put in the state’s voter rolls.

In a letter to the secretary of state, DMV Director Jean Shiomoto said no undocumented immigrants were registered as a result of the error.


But at least one non-citizen of the U.S. has come forward, saying they were registered to vote by the DMV improperly.

Randall Marquis, a Canadian citizen in the United States on a green card, told the LA Times he received a card in the mail notifying him that he had been registered.

The DMV blamed the most recent error on processing mistakes made by technicians at field offices. The Department said an upgrade to the IT system would prevent the reoccurrence of the error.

Mark Meuser, candidate for secretary of state issued a statement as a result of the most recent reveal.

“It seems like every two weeks we're hearing another story of incompetence by the Secretary of State who is failing to properly maintain California's voter rolls," Meuser said. "This situation keeps snowballing. It needs to be fixed. It's vital that Alex Padilla is held accountable for his failed program of voter registration through the DMV affecting approximately a hundred thousand Californians."

https://www.bakersfield.com/news/ker...8e7381d84.html