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#5041584 at 2019-02-05 23:04:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6437 RIP RoyalAnon We Remember You Edition
California elections officials will investigate whether DMV voter registration errors changed the outcome of races
Faced with evidence that some voter registration forms weren't properly filed by California's Department of Motor Vehicles, state officials will now investigate whether any votes were wrongly rejected and whether the final results in any state or local races should be reconsidered.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla and leaders of the agency that oversees the DMV agreed on Monday to settle a federal lawsuit brought by advocacy groups including the League of Women Voters of California and the American Civil Liberties Union. The settlement, in part, states that Padilla's office will "take steps to ensure that every vote is counted" if ballots were rejected and will provide "guidance to elections officials in the relevant jurisdiction(s) on how to count the affected ballots and, if appropriate, re-certify election results."
On Dec. 14, DMV officials revealed that staff members had not transmitted voter registration files for 589 people whose applications or updated applications were filled out before the close of registration for the Nov. 6 statewide election. At the time, state officials could not confirm whether any of those voters had been turned away on election day, or if any had cast last-minute provisional ballots that were rejected in the final tally.
Monday's settlement raises the possibility that a full investigation of the delayed voter registration documents could reveal races where the outcome might have changed had those voters been allowed to participate. State officials now have 60 days to complete an investigation into the identity of those voters and why DMV staff members failed to transmit the files in a timely fashion.
The error was the latest in a series of mishaps revealed in the first six months of operation for California's new automated "motor voter" program, where DMV customers are registered to vote unless they decline.
"I am committed to working with new leadership at DMV and the new administration to ensure integrity of the Motor Voter program and accuracy of the data," Padilla said in a written statement on Monday night. "This settlement continues to move those efforts forward."
The deadline to register for last November's election was Oct. 22. The records in question either came in before that deadline, or included documents signed and dated before that date. A Dec. 14 letter to Padilla from Jean Shiomoto, who was then DMV director, said the registration records weren't submitted "due to a misunderstanding on the part of the department, for which we take responsibility."
Shiomoto retired from state government at the end of 2018. Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet to appoint a new permanent director.
"We continue to actively work with our stakeholders to ensure full transparency for the California Motor Voter program," Melissa Figueroa, deputy secretary for communications at the California State Transportation Agency, said in a written statement on Monday. "As an agency, we are committed to getting this right."
The settlement, filed Monday in a San Francisco federal court, said that DMV staffers failed to transmit voter registration documents in a timely fashion beginning Oct. 12 and that all documents were held back for the three weeks following election day.
Several other problems were reported just days after state officials launched the DMV's automated voter registration system in late April. Those included multiple registration forms sent to counties for the same voter, flawed registrations for 23,000 DMV customers and a limited number of non-U.S. citizens - permanent green-card residents - mistakenly added to the voter rolls.
The agreement to investigate why DMV officials didn't promptly submit hundreds of voter registration forms "establishes concrete steps that California will take to investigate and improve the DMV voter registration system," said Melissa Breach, executive director of the League of Women Voters of California.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-dmv-voter-registration-election-results-settlement-20190205-story.html
#3402746 at 2018-10-09 02:31:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4312 So Satisfying to Watch the Left Lose Their Shit Edition
California DMV: Non-citizens may be registered to vote
Associated Press SOPHIA BOLLAG,Associated Press 32 minutes ago
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - 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.
The DMV said about 1,500 people may have been incorrectly registered between April 23 and Sept. 25 because of a "processing error." 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.
Incorrect registrations will be canceled by the secretary of state, DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez said.
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's the latest issue the department has reported with its new "motor voter" registration system. Last month, the department announced it may have botched about 23,000 voter registrations because of a separate error.
"I remain deeply frustrated and disappointed that persistent errors by the DMV and CDT have undermined public confidence," Secretary of State Alex Padilla wrote in a letter calling for an audit.
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's license at the DMV, the paper reported .
The department is working quickly to fix the problem, Shiomoto said.
California'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.
Early voting for the Nov. 6 election began Monday.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-dmv-non-citizens-may-registered-vote-003429259.html
WTF?
#3401637 at 2018-10-09 01:17:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4311 Beginning to See Small Ripples of Habbenings Edition
>>3401597
"Unraveling Of A Cover-Up" - California DMV Admits 100s Of Non-Citizens Added To Voter Rolls
Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno, is furious at California's DMV,calling the situation "the unraveling of a cover-up," after an internal audit released today shows about 1,500 customers may have been improperly registered to vote.
The Sacramentao Bee reports that the DMV wrote, in a letter Monday to the Secretary of State's Office, that:
"Approximately 1,500 customers may have been registered to vote in error.
This error has been corrected and is separate from the processing error we notified you about in writing on September 5."
In September, The California DMV said it has discovered it sent the Secretary of State's Office 23,000 erroneous voter registrations.
"We are committed to getting this right and are working closely with the Secretary of State's office to correct the errors that occurred," DMV Director Jean Shiomoto said in a statement.
And now, as Sacbee reports, these additional 1,500 errors occurred when DMV technicians processed customer requests at field offices to change voter eligibility responses on driver license applications.
While the 1500 customers added to voter rolls are non-citizens, the DMV claims that none of them are illegal immigrants.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla responded with a harsh letter to the state's DMV and Department of Technology.
"I remain deeply frustrated and disappointed that persistent errors by the DMV and CDT have undermined public confidence in your basic responsibility to collect and transmit accurate voter registration information, as has been required by federal law for 25 years."
As a reminder, California has issued over a million driver's licenses to illegal immigrants over the past three years.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-08/unraveling-cover-california-dmv-admits-100s-non-citizens-added-voter-rolls
#3401597 at 2018-10-09 01:14:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4311 Beginning to See Small Ripples of Habbenings Edition
"Unraveling Of A Cover-Up" - California DMV Admits 100s Of Non-Citizens Added To Voter Rolls
Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno, is furious at California's DMV,calling the situation "the unraveling of a cover-up," after an internal audit released today shows about 1,500 customers may have been improperly registered to vote.
The Sacramentao Bee reports that the DMV wrote, in a letter Monday to the Secretary of State's Office, that:
"Approximately 1,500 customers may have been registered to vote in error.
This error has been corrected and is separate from the processing error we notified you about in writing on September 5."
In September, The California DMV said it has discovered it sent the Secretary of State's Office 23,000 erroneous voter registrations.
"We are committed to getting this right and are working closely with the Secretary of State's office to correct the errors that occurred," DMV Director Jean Shiomoto said in a statement.
And now, as Sacbee reports, these additional 1,500 errors occurred when DMV technicians processed customer requests at field offices to change voter eligibility responses on driver license applications.
While the 1500 customers added to voter rolls are non-citizens, the DMV claims that none of them are illegal immigrants.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla responded with a harsh letter to the state's DMV and Department of Technology.
"I remain deeply frustrated and disappointed that persistent errors by the DMV and CDT have undermined public confidence in your basic responsibility to collect and transmit accurate voter registration information, as has been required by federal law for 25 years."
As a reminder, California has issued over a million driver's licenses to illegal immigrants over the past three years.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-08/unraveling-cover-california-dmv-admits-100s-non-citizens-added-voter-rolls
#3105290 at 2018-09-20 16:06:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3929: Pecan Pie Edition
Officials at California's Department of Motor Vehicles said Wednesday that an additional 3,000 people were mistakenly signed up to vote during the rollout of the state's new "motor voter" program, errors made during the spring and summer and part of a larger batch of problems first reported two weeks ago.
While the total number of registration errors between mid-April and early August remains the same - estimated at roughly 23,000 - the new discovery more than doubles the instances in which customers unsuccessfully tried to opt out of registering to vote, the DMV said.
"We have completed our review of records and already have new and improved processes in place to ensure this error doesn't occur again," DMV Director Jean Shiomoto said in a written statement to The Times.
The 3,000 newly discovered registrations will be canceled, Secretary of State Alex Padilla told local elections officials during a conference call on Wednesday.
The motor voter program was designed to automatically register to vote any eligible Californian who applied for a driver's license or identification card unless that person declined to participate. Since problems were first reported, elections officials have urged those who used the DMV's services to check the status of their voter registration by logging on to voterstatus.sos.ca.gov. Changes in registration are transmitted to the county where a voter lives.
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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-dmv-additional-voter-registration-errors-20180920-story.html
#2895344 at 2018-09-06 00:49:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3661: New York Trouble Edition
I'm sure it's nothing!
More than 23,000 Californians registered to vote incorrectly by state DMV
Tens of thousands of Californians have been registered to vote incorrectly by the state Department of Motor Vehicles, including mistakes that assigned some voters the wrong political party preference, officials said Wednesday.
Officials insist the errors were limited to a small number of the 1.4 million voter registration files sent to elections offices between late April, when California's new automated "motor voter" system went into effect, and early August. The errors did not, officials said, allow anyone other than a U.S. citizen to register to vote. Californians who were affected will soon receive notification in the mail to check their voter registration status.
Jean Shiomoto, the state's DMV director, and Amy Tong, director of the California Department of Technology, described the problem as "an administrative processing error" in a letter to Secretary of State Alex Padilla, California's chief elections officer.
"We are committed to getting this right and are working closely with the Secretary of State's office to correct the errors that occurred," Shiomoto said in a written statement. Tong declined to comment beyond the letter.
The errors, which were discovered more than a month ago, happened when DMV employees did not clear their computer screens between customer appointments. That caused some voter information from the previous appointment, such as language preference or a request to vote by mail, to be "inadvertently merged" into the file of the next customer, Shiomoto and Tong wrote. The incorrect registration form was then sent to state elections officials, who used it to update California's voter registration database.
A small number of the mistakes - state transportation agency officials estimated around 1,300 - involved people who did not intend to register to vote at all. An unknown number included people whose political party preference was changed without their consent. Officials did not provide additional details about the roughly 23,000 registration errors discovered during a monthlong investigation.
State officials said the errors were discovered when they compared DMV records, which had the correct information, with what was sent to elections officials. Californians also undoubtedly saw mistakes in their mailbox: Anyone who registers to vote is sent a card with their registration information.
Officials said Wednesday that a fix has been put in place to prevent additional mistakes.
The mistakes came less than four months after other problems surfaced with the rollout of California's motor voter system, mandated by state law to register any U.S. citizen to vote who applies for or renews a license at the DMV. That error - potentially thousands of cases in which multiple registration documents were generated for a single voter - was caught before the June primary. The timing of the new error, officials said, should not cause problems for any Californian who changes registration information before the November election. County elections officers across the state were also briefed Wednesday.
Padilla, who said he was "extremely disappointed and deeply frustrated" with the mistakes, said he remains confident in the ambitious new voter registration program.
"I hope this doesn't detract from the otherwise overwhelming success that motor voter has been," he said.
The mistake also comes at an inauspicious time for California's motor vehicles agency, which is the focus of widespread criticism for long lines that formed at many of its field offices over the summer. Officials have scrambled to bring in several hundred additional workers to shorten the waits, the agency announced Wednesday ahead of the announcement about the voter registration mistake.
In the letter sent to affected DMV customers, Shiomoto said she "sincerely apologizes for this inconvenience" and urged voters to check their registration status online.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-dmv-voter-registration-error-20180905-story.html