Here's what Snopes actually said:
What's True
California has implemented a law providing for the automatic voter registration of motorists who obtain or renew driver's licenses, and critics contend that the law will make it easier for non-citizens to unlawfully vote.
What's False
California has not implemented a law authorizing non-citizens to vote in federal elections.
Nobody is arguing that California passed a law authorizing non-citizens to vote. Huge strawman.
What we have argued is that the opportunity those laws create for non-citizens to vote illegally means that it MUST be happening. I would stop just short of declaring that the people who put these laws in place KNEW they were creating this serious security risk. I will just assume that they had good intentions, but are just stupid/naive people.
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Keep reading down and it explains how the voter registration actually works. I pasted a snippet. I read a few other articles on it as well. Illegals get a different kinds of DL that can’t be used to register to vote and they can’t register through the dmv without proof of citizenship.
I read it all. They keep repeating the same company line. "It does not give non-citizens the right to vote."
Anytime someone repeats a strawman over and over, I automatically get suspicious. It demonstrates an attempt to evade what is clearly the real issue--non-citizens having an easy/automatic method of being registered to vote.
This is where I would have concern:
The way automatic registration works is relatively simple: Eligible citizens are registered to vote when they show up at a Department of Motor Vehicles office to obtain a driver’s license or state ID. The DMV gives the eligible voter a chance to opt out if they prefer not to register. If the person does not opt out, the DMV electronically transfers their voter registration information to the Secretary of State’s office, rather than making election officials enter data by hand from paper registration forms …
It is important to pay attention to the details herein above.
Who is checking citizenship? How?
All the person has to do is NOT opt out, and they have plausible deniability for being illegally registered.
I saw nothing in that Snopes page that makes me believe that the AB60 license holders are treated any differently when they renew a DL (they just fail to opt out and they will be automatically registered).
I am not unreasonable. I will consider any additional information you can find.
Potential voters “have to demonstrate proof of age, the vast majority of time people are showing a birth certificate or a passport, which also reflects citizenship. That’s arguably more secure than someone checking a box under penalty of perjury,” Padilla said.
I don't necessarily disagree with Pedilla that it is more secure than some online registration where a trained chimp could check the boxes. But, all they are required to do is show proof of age. THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE TIME (key words) people are showing a document that proves citizenship. We are left to assume that proof of age and proof of citizenship will be the same, but that type of citizenship proof is apparently not required. Just proof of age.
I am not saying that a huge run of voter fraud is occurring because of these laws. I am only pointing out the unnecessarily easy opportunity for it.
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