Non-citizens illegally registered to vote, admits California DMV

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – At least one non-citizen and perhaps many others have been inappropriately registered to vote in California by the Department of Motor Vehicles, forcing the state secretary to demand a new Monday. investigation into the agency in question.

The DMV said that about 1,500 people may have been incorrectly registered between April 23 and September 25 due to a "processing error". This includes legal residents who are not citizens, although the DMV says that no people wrongly registered are countries illegally.

The incorrect entries will be canceled by the Secretary of State, said DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez.

DMV Director Jean Shiomoto and California Department of Technology Director Amy Tong briefed the Secretary of State on this issue in a letter on Monday. This is the latest issue reported by the ministry with its new registration system for "motor voters". Last month, the ministry announced that it may have missed about 23,000 voter registrations due to a separate mistake.

"I remain deeply frustrated and disappointed that the persistent mistakes of the DMV and the CDT have undermined public confidence," Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a letter calling for an audit.

The DMV discovered these errors after the Los Angeles Times asked about a poorly registered Canadian, the newspaper reported. The green card holder contacted The Times after being mistakenly registered for trying to replace his driver's license with the DMV, the newspaper reported.

The department is working quickly to solve the problem, said Shiomoto.

California's Motor Voters Act, allowing residents to automatically register to vote, came into effect in April. Since then, people have registered or updated their registration more than a million times. The new law aims to facilitate the registration of citizens and increase voter turnout.

Early voting for the November 6 elections began Monday.