California’s Push To Enroll Everyone To Vote Is About To Backfire Spectacularly
By Benjamin Arie
Campaigns to encourage people to vote are hardly new. We’ve all seen the last-minute pushes to the polls, sometimes with nonsensical slogans that don’t exactly inspire confidence about informed voters.
But in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, California took those voter roundups to a new level.
The state rolled out a scheme to essentially turn the Department of Motor Vehicles into a one-stop voter registration clearinghouse, creating a giant headache in the process.
Now, observers are warning that the same problems which plagued the left-leaning state in 2018 could come up again in 2020 … only this time, the White House is at stake.
At the center of the problem is an automated voter registration system which was hailed by Democrats as the brave future.
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Basically, California decided that computers would be used to auto-register voters based on their DMV records, with the goal of bringing many new voters to the polls.
Of course, registering to vote isn’t exactly difficult. It’s usually a single form that needs to be filled out one time, and you have to wonder if somebody who is confused by this straightforward process really ought to be choosing who runs the country.
But California jumped at the chance to streamline the process even more.
“The state has had a motor-voter system up and running for years, but a new law required the Department of Motor Vehicles to electronically transmit information on drivers who are eligible to vote and who visit the Golden State’s DMV offices to the state’s voter rolls, unless they opt out,” RealClearPolitics said.
To say it didn’t go well would be putting it mildly. Just a few months before the 2018 midterm election, foreign hackers were able to break into the system and wreak havoc.
Stunningly, that hack was pretty much covered up by California officials.
“On April 10, a California Department of Technology official detected that the new DMV system had been compromised by what appeared to be hackers in Croatia,” RealClearPolitics reported. “Among the concerns surfacing now is that state officials never publicly acknowledged the hacking until California media reported on it last month.”
full story at https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/californias-push-enroll-everyone-vote-backfire-spectacularly/