PJ Media’s Catherine Salgado went to California’s online voter registration portal and confirmed it herself. The identification section explicitly provides an option to register without a driver’s license, a state ID, or a Social Security number — and notes only that new voters “may have to show a form of identification or proof of residency the first time they vote, if a driver license or SSN was not provided when registering.”

May have to. Not will have to. May. And only if poll workers feel like asking.

Here’s what that means in practice. Anyone — including noncitizens, including illegal aliens, including foreign nationals of any description — can register to vote in California by checking a box on a form. No ID. No Social Security number. Nothing connecting you to any verified identity. Then on Election Day, you may or may not be asked to show something, depending on the individual poll worker’s judgment.

This is not a theoretical vulnerability that a determined fraudster might eventually figure out. This is a feature that California has built into its public-facing voter registration system, available to anyone with a computer, operating at all times including with 64 days until the November midterms.

And this is the state that has been fighting every federal effort to verify its voter rolls. The state whose attorney general is in court challenging USPS mail ballot tracking. The state where U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli just announced the first of what he expects to be many arrests — a Honduran national who registered without citizenship and voted illegally. The state where the U.S. attorney said directly: “States like California do not screen voter registration applications for citizenship. Every non-citizen registered to vote dilutes a lawful citizen’s vote. We need to audit California’s dirty voter rolls.”

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