© Allen B. West
A new California policy set to go into effect on April 1 could potentially register a massive number of illegal immigrants to vote.
The policy would automatically register adults who obtain or renew a driver's license to vote unless drivers who claim to be legal "opt out." But, since 2015, California has granted illegal immigrants driver's licenses.
Thus far, some 1 million illegals have taken advantage and obtained such a license. According to Fox News, under the new policy, "anyone who already has a valid license and applies for renewal in person or by mail could potentially be added to the voter registration rolls by claiming they are legal."
"You're setting the state up for a disaster," said
True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht.
"They don't seem to have a process in place to verify that people are who they say they are. It's a free-for-all, a process that can be manipulated." Engelbrecht's organization unsuccessfully pressured Democratic Governor Jerry Brown to veto the law.
Linda Paine, who cofounded a nonpartisan organization called
Election Integrity Project of California, is also worried about potential fraud.
"There are thousands and thousands of DMV workers across our huge state," Paine told Fox. "They're not all trained.
There's no actual protection to prevent noncitizens from being added to voter rolls. It's not even that people who are ineligible want to be registered. They may not know that they have to select 'Opt out.'"
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