Automatic voter registration at the DMV is old hat. The problem with automatically registering drivers to vote is that a bunch of them might vote the wrong way. But automatically registering Medicaid applicants is a much better deal.
So New York Democrats are doing that.
Senate Bill S88A, which has now passed, “provides for automatic voter registration and preregistration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for Medicaid enrollees.”
Because these two things are the same.
Next up, enrolling anyone who requests any kind of welfare.
But beyond the obvious cynicism of automatically enrolling welfare applicants to vote is that the New York Medicaid database is packed with non-citizens and fraud. Automatically registering those on it to vote opens up the door to massive numbers of illegal aliens and non-citizens voting.
Here’s how the bill handles the problem.
(c) include a box for the applicant to check to indicate whether the
14 applicant would like to decline to register to vote along with the
15 following statement in prominent type,, or its substantial equivalent,
16 “IF YOU DO NOT CHECK THIS BOX, AND YOU PROVIDE YOUR SIGNATURE ON THE
17 SPACE BELOW, YOU WILL HAVE APPLIED TO REGISTER OR PRE-REGISTER TO VOTE,
18 AND YOU WILL HAVE ATTESTED TO YOUR ELIGIBILITY TO REGISTER OR PRE-REGIS-
19 TER TO VOTE.”
20 (d) include the following warning statement, or its substantial equiv-
21 in prominent type, “IF YOU ARE NOT A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED
22 STATES, YOU MUST CHECK THE BOX BELOW. NON-CITIZENS WHO REGISTER OR
23 PRE-REGISTER TO VOTE MAY BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES AND SUCH VOTER
24 REGISTRATION OR PRE-REGISTRATION MAY RESULT IN DEPORTATION OR REMOVAL,
25 EXCLUSION FROM ADMISSION TO THE UNITED STATES, OR DENIAL OF NATURALIZA-
26 TION.”
Are a whole bunch of the applicants going to do the wrong thing either accidentally or on purpose? Of course. A whole bunch of non-citizens won’t even understand the double language, they won’t check either box, they’ll be registered to vote.
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
State Sen. Claudia Tenney has asked the Department of Justice to investigate this massive voter fraud machine before it happens.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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