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How The DMV Enabled Voter Fraud In California

Not one lawmaker could answer ‘how does a state government provide a document to drive legally, if the person came here illegally?’

October 23, 2026
2 min read

(California Globe) California’s long-term shift from a competitive or Republican-leaning state to a Democratic stronghold has been driven primarily by demographic change through immigration.

In 2018, more than one million illegal immigrants received driver’s licenses from the California DMV, which automatically registered them to vote under the new “Motor Voter” program.

Alex Padilla was California Secretary of State.

Back in 2015, Padilla told the Los Angeles Times, “At the latest, for the 2018 election cycle, I expect millions of new voters on the rolls in the state of California,” with “new voters” code for ineligible voters. Remember what happened in 2018?

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