[dataflow]

Automatic vs. manual doesn't seem relevant? A driver's license is an ID, so if they have that for automatic registration, then they still have an ID.

I think your point is that people can just lie about citizenship and get away with it when registering to vote, regardless of when/how it is done? Is that it?

[Izkata]

Registering to vote has been made so easy it can be done by accident. Then months or years later when an election is coming up they'll get a voter card on the mail and think that means they can vote even though they're not legally allowed to vote.

[dataflow]

I'm kind of incredulous at this if I'm being honest. How can you register to vote by accident? Every form I've seen a copy of asks if you're a citizen and gives you a warning about that. Do you have a copy of the form or screenshot you're referring to that makes this easy to do by accident?

[Izkata]

I don't, but it's easy to find people who realized this happened to them, getting scared about their immigration status and/or breaking the law. And the DMV isn't the only way this can happen:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DACA/comments/1aolik8/accidentally_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/1cuop36/need_advice_...

The comments on this one have someone describing how it almost happened to them at the DMV with the checkbox in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/immigration/comments/7bzst0/acciden...

[dataflow]

Ah gosh I see. It's these voter registration campaigns that are misleading people. Thanks for the links, those are really unfortunate...