@Smokin Joe There is no voter fraud with the Motor Voter process in California. Motor Voter began in California last year. One needs to know the law regarding this, to know what happened, which has been corrected. It was the
State Highway Department who
made these mistakes, not the Secretary of State who runs elections. These mistakes have been corrected - none of these people were approved to vote, so
no voter fraud happened due to this problem.
If one goes to a state highway dept. building, to get a driver's license or renew one, or to get an ID card, one may give their information to a dept. worker, and the info. is sent to the SECRETARY OF STATE, ELECTIONS DIVISON, to become a voter. A federal law passed in 2003, makes every Secretary of State in every state, responsible for the state voter list - not a county. The voter information comes to them and the info. is checked to see if it is correct, that the person is a citizen, is living in that county at a physical mailing address. If the SOS determines the person is an eligible voter, that office contacts the county to add this person to the voter role.
What happened in California, is, the
Highway Dept., screwed up names and addresses, left out information, etc., and these thousands COULD NOT BE ADDED TO THE OFFICIAL VOTER LIST. None of these people were approved to vote so they could not vote. The Highway Department also did not send in 500 of them in time for the next election, so that 500 could not vote.
Both Democrat and Republican leaders sought to get this fixed, and did, so the Highway Department has now been trained to get the proper information and send it to the SOS in a timely fashion.