{"id":184675,"date":"2018-10-08T22:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T02:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184675"},"modified":"2018-10-08T22:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T02:30:55","slug":"california-dmv-non-citizens-may-registered-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/08\/california-dmv-non-citizens-may-registered-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"California DMV: Non citizens may be registered to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184679\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-California_Department_of_Motor_Vehicles_Headquarters-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184679\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-California_Department_of_Motor_Vehicles_Headquarters-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-California_Department_of_Motor_Vehicles_Headquarters-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-California_Department_of_Motor_Vehicles_Headquarters-1-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cI remain deeply frustrated and disappointed that persistent errors by the DMV and CDT have undermined public confidence,\u201d Secretary of State Alex Padilla wrote in a letter calling for an audit. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=52572754\">File Photo By Coolcaesar\/Wikimedia <\/a>commons<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=52572754\">, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 At least one non-citizen and perhaps many more were improperly registered to vote in California by the Department of Motor Vehicles, prompting the secretary of state to demand a new investigation of the embattled agency Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The DMV said about 1,500 people may have been incorrectly registered between April 23 and Sept. 25 due to a \u201cprocessing error.\u201d That includes legal residents who are not citizens, although the DMV says none of the people mistakenly registered are people living in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Incorrect registrations will be cancelled by the secretary of state, DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p>DMV Director Jean Shiomoto and California Department of Technology Director Amy Tong notified the secretary of state about the problem in a Monday letter. It&#8217;s the latest issue the department has reported with its new \u201cmotor voter\u201d registration system. Last month, the department announced it may have botched about 23,000 voter registrations due to a separate error.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remain deeply frustrated and disappointed that persistent errors by the DMV and CDT have undermined public confidence,\u201d Secretary of State Alex Padilla wrote in a letter calling for an audit.<\/p>\n<p>The DMV discovered the errors after the Los Angeles Times inquired about a Canadian who was incorrectly registered, the paper reported. The green card holder contacted the Times after he was mistakenly registered when he tried to replace his driver&#8217;s license at the DMV, the paper reported .<\/p>\n<p>The department is working quickly to fix the problem, Shiomoto said.<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s motor voter law letting residents automatically register to vote took effect in April. Since then, people have newly registered or updated their voter registration more than a million times. The new law is aimed at making it easier for people to register and boosting voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting for the Nov. 6 election began Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 At least one non-citizen and perhaps many more were improperly registered to vote in California by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":184679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-sophia-bollag","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}