Charge dismissed in case of dog registered to vote

[catgirl]

Source: Associated Press

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - A judge has decided that a suburban Seattle woman who registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote has spent enough time in the legal doghouse.

Jane Balogh (BAY'-loh) had been charged with making a false statement but entered into a plea agreement last year. A King County judge dismissed the charge Monday after Balogh showed that she had paid $240 in court costs and completed community service.

Balogh says she registered her dog Duncan to protest a loophole in the law that she says makes voter registration so easy a nonexistent person could be added to the voter rolls.

She says she made no secret of her action after the fact, telling a number of elected officials she had registered her dog.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080826/ap_on_fe_st/odd_vote_dog;_ylt=AiHDILbM2cu.X9stKbGQPe4uQE4F

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And she says Duncan never voted.

Officials should have thanked her, not fined her.

[Crazy Dave]

1. ...

She should have got credit cards and bought a home in the dog's name too :rofl:

[catgirl]

3. Actually, my cat Floyd used to get credit card apps in the mail

We put our phone in his name. He received a lot of mail and phone calls. One time, a telemarketer called
and I replied, he's curled up in a ball, sleeping. Then when the caller kept on blabbing, I told him Floyd
is a cat. The guy was choking over his words (mortified) after that.

[Crazy Dave]

5. You should have Floyd write the McCain campaign

Have him say all kinds of stuff they like and maybe we'll hear McCain say in a speech, "I got a letter from a gentleman named Floyd who said____", then you and Floyd could go on Keith Olbermann and tell America who the real Floyd was :rofl:

[Ian David]

6. That happens when you get pet meds from a human pharmacy. n/t

[Sequoia]

7. You're way too funny and clever.

I love coming to DU to cheer me up.

[Festivito]

2. I. See. Stupid. Officials. /nt

[zbdent]

4. sorry, for a moment I thought this was a thread about Mannthrax Coultercaust's legal troubles ...

my apologies to dogs everywhere ...

[catgirl]

9. LOL!!!!

[noonwitch]

8. I wonder if my grandpa will get an absentee ballot this year for Grandma

Who died in November of 2007. If he does, she will be voting for McCain. Grandpa's cast her vote in every election since 1996, after he found out she was voting democratic after she closed the voting booth curtain on him. That's when he decided to get absentee ballots, and she could never figure out how to work them, so he cast the vote for the republican.

[catgirl]

10. That's so sad (nt)

[zbdent]

11. It's also called voter fraud ...

yet, somehow, in this climate, he wouldn't be prosecuted ...

[question everything]

12. I dunno. As it is there are many dogs voting

I saw one down the street today, with a McCain yard sign.

[npk]

13. So she pfroved her point

She was able to register the dog, correct, I think that's what I read in the article. So in fact her presumption was correct she was bale to "register a nonexistent person." She should be working for black box voting after that very effective example of how our election system is in dire need of fixing.