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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    California DMV wrongly registers more than 1500 people to vote

    The state Department of Motor Vehicles started a new motor voter program in April. Californians applying for a drivers license or state ID automatically get registered to vote.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 10, 2018 • 1 min read

    The state Department of Motor Vehicles started a new motor voter program in April. Californians applying for a drivers license or state ID automatically get registered to vote. The LA Times reports that the DMV wrongly registered more than 1500 people, including at least one non-citizen, to vote. California Secretary of State Alex Padilla isn’t ruling out the possibility of suspending the motor voter program. He’s calling for an independent investigation. The error could add fuel to President Trump’s unproven claims of voter fraud, particularly in California.

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    The full episode

    1 of 4
    MacArthur ‘Genius’ Vijay Gupta on trauma, choices, and excellence
    1. 0:00California DMV wrongly registers more than 1500 people to voteYou’re reading this
    2. 7:12Challenging what we think we know about rent control
    3. 17:32Pasadena museum highlights California women artists, and MOCA gets a new chairwoman
    4. 25:49MacArthur ‘Genius’ Vijay Gupta on a traumatic childhood and finally being ‘seen’
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