In his letter to Shiomoto and Tong, Padilla expressed his frustration and disappointment of the repeated mistakes. He also told them that “immediate and transparent action is imperative.”
During a press conference Tuesday, Padilla said they are considering to freeze the state’s Motor Voter Program.“We’re doing the homework as we speak…These mistakes from the DMV are absolutely unacceptable,” according to him.
In September, a resident of Newport Beach, Randall Marquis contacted the Times that election officials erroneously sent him a registered voter notice. It happened after he applied for a replacement driver’s license at a California DMV field office in late August.
Marquis is Canadian citizen, who is married to a U.S. citizen and possesses a green card. He told the Times, “What bothers me the most about this is that there could be 10,000 errors out there, or more. I don’t want this current administration being able to say, ‘Look we were right, there were illegal voters.”
The newspaper reached out to the California DMV for comment. Its inquiry led that agency to discover additional mistakes, which blamed employees responsible for data entries.
