Registered to Vote at the DMV? You May Have Missed a Step

If you registered to vote at the DMV, you may want to check your party affiliation. L.A.Times reporter Christine Mai-Duc said voters may have missed a step or two.

According to the Los Angeles Times, if you didn't complete a secondary step at a computer terminal, you were registered as having no party preference.

This can potentially affect thousands of voters who want to vote in the closed Republican primary in California.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed the New Motor Voter Act last year requiring the DMV to automatically register voters unless they opt out. The DMV has not fully implemented the law and has just recently installed these computer terminals.

And since April 1, when the DMV rolled out the terminals, more than 14,000 voters have been registered to vote, according to The Times. Of those, more than one-third did not complete the second step, The Times reported.

The two-step process has come under attack from voting rights advocates.

"We really think people are going to slip through the cracks here,” Lori Shellenberger, voting rights director for the ACLU of California, told The Times.

The DMV says the new process is a vast improvement from its paper-based process and doesn't view it as a "two-step" process.

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