registered to vote without my knowledge or consent by Washington State DOL

[kliebetanz]

A long term gc-holder without any legal problems, last spring I went to a Washington State Dept of Licensing office to report a change of address and to renew my driver's license. At the DOL outlet I was not asked to fill out a form but to just verbally give them my new address, which I did, aside from doing a vision test for the DL renewal part.
About 4 weeks later, to my horror, I received a post-card from the county elections office which was a voter registration in my name.
The very next day I went to the county elections office and had myself taken off the voter rolls immediately. They gave me a letter stating that I am no longer registered to vote, as of that day.
I want to emphasize that at no time during my visit to the DOL was I ever asked by a Dept of Licensing employee to fill out a form, paper or electronic, or asked if I wanted to be registered to vote, whether I was a US citizen. If they had I would have certainly said: "no!" to voter registration. I have renewed my DL in Washington State several times over the last 26 years and never had this problem.
As it is I now probably am on the record for having been registered to vote for about two weeks or so, before being able to "de-register" myself, and I feel really bad, because I may now be in trouble for something I did not even do.
I have tried to get the DOL to write a letter to me stating that they filed a voter registration for me without my knowledge or consent. Needless to say, they will not...
Question 1: am I able to re-enter the US, after a stay of a few weeks in Europe, without a problem with regards to the above issue?
Question 2: will this issue come up when I try to renew my gc in about 5 years time?
Is there anything more I can do to minimize the effects of this involuntary registration?

 

[Jackolantern]

It won't be an issue for your reentry or GC renewal.

It may be an issue if/when you apply for citizenship, but it should be easily cleared up once you show the naturalization interviewer you have been deregistered, and that you never voted (you should also get a letter from the state confirming that you never voted), and you assert that you were registered without your knowledge.

They are aware that some organizations like driver's license agencies frequently push or trick noncitizens into registering to vote, or outright register them without their knowledge and consent, so once you do the above 3 things they won't give you a problem over it.