CA Senator: We Know Voters are Citizens Because They Say They Are

"A a paper registration card, you’re signing under penalty of perjury"

October 27, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield 

Voter ID? Why would California possibly need Voter ID? It’s not like voting is something as important as buying cough syrup.

After the Trump administration presented a list of tens of thousands of dubious voters, LA court officials admitted that they have no way to verify if voters are citizens (because they choose to have no way to verify it.)

As California comes under pressure over the large number of non-citizens listed as registered voters, Monica Flores, the Assistant Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Los Angeles County, filed an extraordinary document in court.

“Step 5: Verify Citizenship or Non-Citizenship 44. The DOJ’s proposed order would also require the Registrar to verify the citizenship of each affected voter. The Registrar is not equipped or authorized to verify voter citizenship because it does not independently house citizenship-related information beyond the voter attestation as identified in federal and state law (such as, among other things, immigration records, travel records, naturalization records, etc.) and certainly is not equipped to do so within the election period. California has not authorized use of the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (“SAVE”) program for the 2026 General Election, and the Registrar has no direct access to federal citizenship data.”

Now, KCRA did an interview with Senator Alex Padilla, who was the former Secretary of State, and he said much the same thing with more spin tacked on.

Padilla explained that California determines voter eligibility during the registration process. “If you’ve done it through the DMV, when you first applied for your driver’s license or your ID, you know, people show up with a birth certificate or a passport to begin that process at the DMV,” he said. “For people who are registering to do a paper registration card, you’re signing under penalty of perjury. And history has shown us that voter fraud is exceedingly, exceedingly, exceedingly rare,” he said.

Bottom line is anyone who signs a card can vote regardless of whether they’re legally entitled to vote. The only thing holding them back is exposure and punishment which until recently hardly ever happened. And Sen. Padilla, like most Dems, insists that there’s no need to investigate because voter fraud never happens and he knows it never happens because he never looks into it. Nicely circular.

But there’s yet another admission from California in response to that 20,000 list that raises some major red flags.

Los Angeles County has reviewed 200 records from a Department of Justice list of 20,000 individuals flagged as “likely” noncitizens on voter rolls.

In a court filing, the county registrar stated that 112 of the individuals reviewed had canceled or inactive registrations and were not mailed ballots. However, 86 others in the sample were mailed ballots. The county said 71.2% of those in the sample had never voted in the past election.

For those of you who (unlike the average LAUSD graduate) can do basic math, that means nearly 30% or 1 in 3 of those in the sample had illegally voted.

It also means that California potentially has large numbers of illegal voters.

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