California Secretary of State Alex Padilla called for an independent audit of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) after the agency admitted that around 1,500 people including non-citizen individuals were wrongly registered to vote through the Motor Voter program during a period from April 23 to September 25.
At a press conference in regard to the cybersecurity of the midterm election on Oct. 9 in Sacramento, Padilla described the error caused by DMV as “unacceptable” and indicated the option to freeze the Motor Voter program is “certainly on the table.”
