萨克拉曼多·比尔（Sacramento Bee）称，加利福尼亚州国务卿亚历克斯·帕迪拉（Alex Padilla）已公开驳回了律师在周二针对加利福尼亚州和该州DMV 提起的诉讼中提出的要求。
该诉讼由哈密特·德利翁（Harmeet Dhillon）律师在萨克拉曼多美国地方法院提起，要求两个州机构共同努力，开发一种改进的系统，以验证登记选民的公民身份。
据美联社和《旧金山纪事报》报道，它声称，审计发现加州DMV的“汽车投票人”计划“在技术问题上非常复杂”，该计划注册了DMV游客以进行投票，这些问题导致选民登记不一致。
Dhillon的诉讼进一步指称，帕迪拉和加利福尼亚州机动车局局长史蒂夫·戈登（Steve Gordon）违反了联邦法律和《国家选民登记法》，因为他们没有核实非公民是否已通过该计划进行登记投票，此外，帕迪拉（Padilla）“建立了一种模式和做法，不做任何事情来核实潜在选民是否是美国公民，从而导致将非公民置于选民名单上。”
帕迪拉（Padilla）答复说，该诉讼“是对《美国选民登记法》的根本性歪曲”。
帕迪拉在萨克拉曼多蜜蜂中复制的一份声明中写道：“原告声称他们正在保护选民，但这只是将他们的选民压制剧本带到加利福尼亚的不明智的尝试。” “正如我们在其他州（最近在堪萨斯州和德克萨斯州所看到的）所看到的那样，这些努力只会剥夺数千名合格公民的权利。加利福尼亚州仍致力于确保我们选举的完整性，赋予公民参与民主的能力以及捍卫选举权的权利。投票。”
达里恩对萨克拉曼多蜜蜂说，帕迪拉关于压制选民的说法“荒唐可笑，不诚实”，而诉讼只是为了确保正确地传达公民身份的信息已在DMV与国务卿办公室之间传递。她还说，她希望DMV向帕迪拉发送更多与公民身份有关的记录，以证明只有合格的人才能注册。
萨克拉曼多·蜜蜂说，她说：“我们希望国务卿做好他的工作，以确保只有合格的选民才能进入选民名单。”
Dhillon补充说：“帕迪拉有责任交叉检查他可以访问的数据库。”
帕迪拉（Padilla）的办公室告诉萨克拉曼多蜜蜂（Sacramento Bee），但选民登记数据库不包含正式的公民身份文件。
该计划的启动导致六名不合格的选民在2018年6月的初选中投票，其中两名选民参加了2018年11月的选举。总共有1,500个DMV注册者可能没有正确地注册投票，并且在实施之后的几个月内，加利福尼亚DMV总共报告了105,000个注册错误。
加利福尼亚共和党前副主席，共和党全国委员会成员达伦（Dhillon）代表三名加利福尼亚居民提起诉讼，他们全部被美联社确定为共和党选民。
GOP LAWYER SUES CALIFORNIA, CLAIMS 'MOTOR VOTER' PROGRAM FAILS TO VERIFY VOTER CITIZENSHIP
California's Secretary of State Alex Padilla has publicly dismissed claims made in a lawsuitfiled by an attorney against the State of California and the state's DMV on Tuesday, according to the Sacramento Bee.
The suit, filed by attorney Harmeet Dhillon in the U.S. District Court of Sacramento, requests that the two state agencies work together to develop an improved system to verify the citizenship of persons registering to vote.
It claims that an audit has revealed California DMV's "motor voter" program, which registers DMV visitors to vote, is ''riddled with technical problems" and these problems led to discrepancies in voter registrations, according to the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Dhillon's suit further alleges that Padilla and the director of California's Department of Motor Vehicles, Steve Gordon, are in violation of federal law and the National Voter Registration Act because they have failed to verify whether or not non-citizens are registered to vote through the program, and further that Padilla "established a pattern and practice of doing nothing to verify that a potential voter is a United States citizen, thus causing non-citizens to be placed on the voter rolls."
Padilla replied with a statement declaring that the suit,"is a fundamental misrepresentation" of the National Voter Registration Act.
"The plaintiffs claim they are protecting voters, but this is nothing more than an underhanded attempt to bring their voter suppression playbook to California," Padilla wrote in a statement replicated in the Sacramento Bee. "As we have seen in other states—most recently in Kansas and Texas—these efforts only serve to disenfranchise thousands of eligible citizens. California remains committed to ensuring the integrity of our elections, empowering citizens to participate in democracy, and defending the right to vote."
Dhillon told the Sacramento Bee that Padilla's claims of voter suppression are "ludicrous and dishonest" and the suit is simply about ensuring correct information about citizenship is being successfully transmitted between the DMV and the Secretary of State's Office. She also said she wants the DMV to send Padilla more records related to citizenship to demonstrate that only eligible people are able to register.
"We want the secretary of state to do his job, which is to ensure that only eligible voters are placed on the voter rolls," she said, according to the Sacramento Bee.
"It's Padilla's duty to cross-check databases he has access to," Dhillon added.
Padilla's office told the Sacramento Bee, however, that voter registration databases don't include official citizenship documents.
The program's launch resulted in six ineligible voters casting ballots in the 2018 June primaries, with two of those voters participating in November 2018 elections. In total, 1,500 DMV registrantsmay have been improperly registered to vote and In all, 105,000 registration errors were reported by the California DMV following its beginning in the months after its implementation.
Dhillon, the former vice chairwoman of the California Republican Party and a Republican National Committee member, filed the lawsuit on behalf of three California residents, all of whom are also identified as Republican voters by The Associated Press.
