The Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services (DMV) and the Secretary of State’s office both confirmed it has mistakenly registered more than 300 non-U.S. citizens to vote since 2021.
Officials with the Oregon Department of Transportation said Sept. 14 that a data entry problem occurred when people who were not citizens applied for driver’s licenses.
An initial analysis by the Oregon Department of Transportation, which oversees the state’s DMV, revealed that 306 noncitizens were registered to vote, said Kevin Glenn, a department spokesperson. Of those, two voted in elections since 2021.
“It’s basically a data entry issue,” Glenn said, explaining that when a DMV worker enters information about a person applying for a driver’s license or state ID, they can incorrectly code that the person has a U.S. birth certificate or passport when they don’t….