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by dataflow 596 days ago
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?
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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...

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