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Viral Reports alleging that of a state bill in  California, signed in to law by Gov. Jerry Brown, that will register and make it easier for illegal aliens to register to vote in US elections.  

iRumorMill.com Determination: Real

The Motor Voter Act is real and was signed into law by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Oct. 10, 2015. This according to an Oct. 11, 2015 article by the Washington Times, which said the aim of the bill was to improve voter turnout, but critics are "predicting that it will ramp up voter fraud by making it easier for noncitizens to cast ballots."

Eligible voters will be able to automatically register to vote "when they obtain or renew their driver’s licenses at the Department of Motor Vehicles." This reduces the need to fill out a form and eligible voters are permitted to opt out of  the voter registration.

Presently, when voters register in California no identification is required to prove citizenship and registration can be done online.

According to a Feb. 1, 2017 article by Fox News, "California’s voter registration system is 'highly susceptible to being compromised,' because of immigration policies protecting the Golden State’s 2.4 million illegal immigrants."

Senior legal fellow for the Institute for Constitutional Government at The Heritage and manager of the Election Law Reform InitiativeFoundation, Hans von Spakovsky, told Fox News, "If you are talking about California, the state is apparently relying on the illegal alien to tell the state they shouldn’t be registered. There is still an honor system.” 

Fox News talked to director of policy studies for the Washington D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies, Jessica Vaughan who said she was concerned "that California issues driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, allowing them to automatically be registered to vote under the federal 'motor-voter' laws." 

The article said that California's "AB60 law went into effect in 2015, 806,000 illegal immigrants have received a license."

Posted 02/03/16   Updated 7/25/17

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