California DMV mis-registers 23,000 voters ahead of midterm elections

StateScoop: The California Department of Motor Vehicles accidentally registered thousands of voters incorrectly due to human errors at its local offices, the agency announced last Wednesday.

Between April 23 and Aug. 5, 23,000 DMV customers saw their voter information incorrectly sent to the California secretary of state’s office, including 1,600 who did not fill out a voting affidavit in the first place. The errors were publicly disclosed in a letter DMV Director Jean Shiomoto and Chief Information Officer Amy Tong sent to Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who oversees California's elections.

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