The two Republicans on the Orange County Board of Supervisors are calling for an urgent purging of the county’s voter rolls to make sure only … humans … can cast ballots in the upcoming statewide election over congressional redistricting.

Yes, you read that right.

Umm, why?

Because a woman named Laura Lee Yourex, 62, from Costa Mesa, registered her dog, Maya Jean, to vote, and the dog, presumably with its owner’s help, actually voted in the 2021 recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom and the 2022 primary. The Orange County district attorney announced criminal charges Friday against Yourex, who self-reported the fraudulent voting.

How we got here

Proponents of stricter requirements for voter identification point to incidents like this as evidence that it's easy to skirt California’s voti

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