California's Secretary of State Alex Padilla rebuked claims made in a lawsuit claiming the state failed to verify the citizenship of potential voters for DMV registrants as part of its 'motor voter' program, which is 'riddled with technical problems.'
Dhillon's suit further alleges that Padilla and the director of California's Department of Motor Vehicles, Steve Gordon, are in violation of federal law and the National Voter Registration Act because they have failed to verify whether or not non-citizens are registered to vote through the program, and further that Padilla"established a pattern and practice of doing nothing to verify that a potential voter is a United States citizen, thus causing non-citizens to be placed on the...
Padilla replied with a statement declaring that the suit,"is a fundamental misrepresentation" of the National Voter Registration Act. "The plaintiffs claim they are protecting voters, but this is nothing more than an underhanded attempt to bring their voter suppression playbook to California," Padilla wrote in a statement replicated in the."As we have seen in other states—most recently in Kansas and Texas—these efforts only serve to disenfranchise thousands of eligible citizens.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 24: California secretary of state Alex Padilla speaks during a news conference at Uber headquarters on May 24, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Padilla and the head of California's DMV have been named in a lawsuit that claims the state's"Motor Votor" Voter registration program has failed to properly determine if applicants are citizens before registering them, leading to thousands of errors on the voter rolls.
"We want the secretary of state to do his job, which is to ensure that only eligible voters are placed on the voter rolls," she said, according to thePadilla's office told theThe program's launch resulted in
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