[California's version of ObamaCare] uses activist organizations connected to theDemocratic Party to register people to vote. The funding also will boost the budgets of these organizations.
In addition, the newly created Obamacare health exchange “Assisters” will be trained to sign people up for social services, including welfare, food stamps and housing assistance, according toCommunity Health Councils, Inc.
In 2012, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 35, by Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima. It required that voter registration be part of the health insurance exchange.
SB35 creates “voter registration agencies” largely through state social services agencies. The law requires anyone applying online for service or assistance, or submitting a recertification, renewal or change of address form, to be provided an online “voter preference form.”
Effective January 1, the California Department of Social Services issued a new All County Information NoticeInformation Notice to county welfare directors and state and local National Voter Registration Act agencies regarding compliance with SB35.
CalFresh, California Work Opportunity and the Responsibility to Kids (formerly CALWORKs) programs are now required to provide welfare and food stamp recipients a voter registration card, “regardless of whether they indicate they want to register of not,” according to the Department of Social Services. “Under federal law, the NVRA requires states to provide voter registration opportunities at all offices that provide public assistance and all offices that provide state-funded programs primarily engaged in providing services to person(s) with disabilities. All applicants and continuing clients must be given a voter registration card (VRC) and an NVRA Voter Preference Form, regardless of whether they indicate they want to register or not.”
The agencies are required to “Provide and collect a voter registration card, and provide and collect a NVRA Voter Preference Form.”
