Not even close, dude.
"When people go to the DMV to obtain or renew a driver's license, or to get a state identification card, they’ll be asked for the usual information in such transactions, such as their name, date of birth and address. They’ll also be asked to affirm their eligibility to vote and will be given the choice of opting out of registering at that time. Information about anyone who does not decline registration will be electronically transmitted from the DMV to the secretary of state’s office, where citizenship will be verified and names will be added to the voter rolls."
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-pol-ca-motor-voter-law-20151016-story.html
Since there is no funding at all for verifying citizenship (not an accident), those applicants will be added to the voter rolls automatically, because "Hey, we can't deny anyone the right to vote without proof of non-eligibility". The burden of proof is being shifted from proving citizenship by the applicant to proving non-citizenship by the state, who has no intention what-so-ever of doing so.
"We’ve built the protocols and the firewalls to not register people that aren’t eligible,” Padilla said. “We’re going to keep those firewalls in place."
Except the firewall consists of the non-citizen voluntarily asking for a "special" license instead of just asking for a drivers license where there is no funding or apparatus at all to verify citizenship. ...........So, not only close, but dead on.
I can sympathize with your inability to understand political double-speak.
