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"However, the NVRA, or “Motor Voter,” requires the attachment of standardized, mail-in voter registration forms to applications issued by states’ motor vehicles departments (which have different names, depending on the state). In New York, the NVRA voter registration forms are attached to both driver’s license applications (limited to citizens) and non-driver identification forms (available to anyone, including non-citizens). Thus, it is plausible that a non-citizen who applies for a non-driver identification card will not realize that he or she needs to fill out a special form, and will fill out, instead, an NVRA registration form – and it is unlikely, due to the passive New York qualification scheme, that the state will catch the error. Thus, the entire City scheme is undermined by the NVRA. The problem would, logically, be exacerbated in states that allow non-citizens to apply for driver’s licenses, as every non-citizen who applies will receive an NVRA registration form. Wittingly or unwittingly, non-citizens who register, and then vote, wittingly or unwittingly in federal elections, will impermissibly dilute the legal votes of United States citizens. A dual roll system, and the repeal of the NVRA, would completely avoid this serious potential problem.
Critics of the NVRA claim that it is merely an expensive partisan sham that facilitates voter fraud. The evidence tends to support this criticism. Although the stated purpose of the NVRA was to increase participation, and although the NVRA has increased registration, the NVRA has failed to significantly impact actual participation in any meaningful way. Thus, the NVRA is an expensive failure that significantly facilitates voter fraud, an egregious violation of citizens’ federal voting rights. If this failed legislation is repealed, it would give states the financial latitude necessary to implement a federally mandated, dual roll voter registration system – a compassionate system for protecting the federal voting rights of United States citizens and giving states a head start on building the electoral infrastructure to allow non-citizens necessary, limited political participation.