Immigrants living in the U.S. illegally will not automatically be registered to vote in California come April.

At issue is a California law taking effect in April that will automatically register people to vote when they get a driver’s license or ID card or update their address with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

California allows immigrants living in the country illegally to obtain drivers licenses, leading some news websites to falsely claim they’ll be automatically signed up to vote.

California’s new program has specific safeguards in place to ensure only U.S. citizens can go through the voter registration process. A DMV worker processing a drivers’ license application for an undocumented immigrant, for example, will not be able to access the voter registration boxes, which will be grayed out.

“To be eligible, you have to be a U.S. citizen,” said Jessica Gonzalez, a DMV spokeswoman.

The New Motor Voter Law, written by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2015, but it has taken this long to get the procedure in place.

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A 2016 report by the Public Policy Institute of California (attached at the bottom of this article) predicts that the new law will increase the share in the electorate of certain demographics — including those ages 18-25, Latinos, those without a college education and those with two foreign-born parents.

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This is part of The Associated Press’ ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of false stories on the platform.