Peak California: Woman in Orange County Registers Her Dog to Vote; The Dog Casts Ballots in Two Elections

In the "You Cannot Make This Stuff Up," category, a woman registered her dog to vote and actually cast two mail-in ballots in the dog's name. 

Tell me again how voter ID is racist? 

A Costa Mesa woman accused of registering her dog to vote and casting two ballots in the dog’s name has been charged with five felonies, authorities said Friday, Sept. 5.

Laura Lee Yourex, 62, allegedly registered her dog, Maya Jean Yourex, to vote and cast two mail-in ballots – in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election of California Governor Gavin Newsom and the 2022 primary election, Orange County District Attorney spokeswoman Kimberly Edds said.

The first ballot was counted; the second was rejected, she said.

Wonder what breed the dog was and who she voted for in the 2021 gubernatorial recall? 

Here's the kicker: Laura Lee Yourex ratted herself out, self-reporting to the Orange County Registrar that she had signed up her dog Maya Jean to vote.

The DA’s office began investigating in late October after the Orange County Registrar of Voters office informed them of a resident who self-reported that she had registered her dog to vote and had cast mail-in ballots addressed to her dog, according to Edds.

The DA’s office learned that Yourex had posted photos to social media, one in January 2022 of her dog wearing an “I voted” sticker, and one in October 2024 of Maya’s dog tag and a vote-by-mail ballot with the caption “Maya is still getting her ballot,” even after the dog had passed away, Edds said.

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Yourex is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday, where she may enter a plea to the two counts of casting a ballot when not entitled to vote, one count each of perjury, procuring or offering a false or forged document to be filed, and registering a non-existent person to vote. If convicted on all counts, she faces six years in prison. 

Here is an additional kicker and reason number eleventy-million why California elections are screwed: You do not have to provide proof of residency or supply any identification when voting in municipal or statewide elections. However, in federal elections, first-time voters have to show proof of residency. This is how the ballot cast in the name of the dog in 2022 was challenged and rejected.

Go figure.

Then there is the greater concern of Governor Gavin Newsom and his redistricting scam, which heightens the urgency of cleaning up California voter rolls in order to beat back this gerrymandering boondoggle. 

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Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is also scrutinizing California's voting records. Her office requested Orange County files, and Orange County refused to supply them. So, the federal government is suing the county. Your tax dollars, hard at work.

And yet…Orange County refused to provide @CivilRights with voter registration records they are required to produce on demand. We had to sue! What next, someone’s pet llama 🦙 or support peacock 🦚 on the rolls?! We will find the whole darn menagerie by the time we are done!🤨 https://t.co/4e4MbTGqWu

— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) September 6, 2025

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