Spencer Pratt was leading the Los Angeles mayoral race on election night – then five days of mail-in ballots wiped him out.
Now LA homeowners are coming forward to show exactly where those ballots came from.
What they found in their own mailboxes explains why California is fighting the DOJ's request to audit the voter rolls.
California Voter Rolls Carry 873000 Ghost Registrations and Judicial Watch Just Sued to Clean Them Up
Los Angeles homeowners are opening their mailboxes right now and finding ballots for people who haven't lived there in years.
Sue Pascoe lost her home in the Palisades Fire – then discovered she was still receiving ballots for three adult children who had long since moved out of California.
One son serves in the military and spent time stationed outside the country – re-registered in Texas years ago.
Her daughter left California almost six years back.
Every time Pascoe tried to remove her children from the voter rolls, election officials refused.
Sharon Kilbride told the New York Post she once allowed people in housing assistance programs to use her address – and four and five years after they left, their ballots are still showing up.
California isn't keeping dirty rolls by accident.
Judicial Watch just filed a federal lawsuit against California Secretary of State Shirley Weber proving the state has 873,092 inactive voter registrations sitting on the rolls – some dating back before Trump's first election in 2016.
Of those, 33,922 registrations have been inactive for at least ten consecutive years.
Federal law requires states to remove inactive registrations after two federal election cycles.
Weber has been ignoring that law for years.
DOJ Demands California Voter Roll Audit and Shirley Weber Is Fighting It in Federal Court
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli – running multiple active election fraud investigations in coordination with the FBI's Los Angeles field office – went public last week with exactly what California is hiding.
Weber refused a direct DOJ demand for California's voter registration database, claiming state privacy laws blocked the review.
Essayli wasn't buying it.
"Those laws don't apply to the federal government in this context," he said, and the case is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
This isn't the first time Judicial Watch forced California to clean up its mess.
In 2019, a prior Judicial Watch lawsuit forced California and Los Angeles County to remove more than 1.2 million inactive registrations – after discovering neither the state nor the county had purged a single inactive voter in 20 years.
They paid the penalty, made the promises, and went right back to doing the same thing.
Weber's office offered DOJ a redacted database, viewable by appointment only, in Sacramento.
DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon rejected it and demanded a complete electronic copy with every field intact – names, dates of birth, addresses, driver's licenses, and Social Security numbers.
Weber refused.
Dhillon wondered: "Why does California hide their voter rolls from the federal government at the same time they gladly hand them over to liberal activist groups?!"
Skid Row Cash for Ballots and a Dog That Voted
The corruption isn't theoretical.
Federal prosecutors charged a Marina del Rey woman with paying homeless individuals cash to register at fake addresses – a scheme that ran for decades until undercover journalists exposed it.
California also lets voters register using a gym membership card, an employer ID, a credit card, a prescription label, or a health insurance card – and California gives free health coverage to illegal aliens, meaning that insurance card gets you on the voter rolls.
California ranks dead last – 50th out of 50 states – on the Heritage Foundation's Election Integrity Scorecard.
That ranking makes sense when you know a boxer named Maya Jean Yourex cast a counted ballot in California's 2021 gubernatorial recall election.
Maya is a dog.
Her owner registered her, received a mail-in ballot addressed to the dog, voted it, and then posted a photo of Maya wearing an "I Voted" sticker on social media.
No ID required.
Shirley Weber doesn't want the federal government looking at her voter rolls – because the federal government would find out exactly what kind of state California has built.
Spencer Pratt got knocked off the ballot by a five-day mail-in surge that nobody can fully explain.
Maya Jean Yourex got to vote before anyone noticed.
Weber knows what's in those records, and she's fighting all the way to the Ninth Circuit to make sure you never find out.
Sources:
- Ben Sellers, "L.A. Homeowners Complain over Stream of Unsolicited Mail-In Ballots," Headline USA, June 14, 2026.
- Jamie Paige, "LA homeowners say ballots keep coming in mail despite repeated efforts to stop them," New York Post, June 12, 2026.
- "Judicial Watch Sues California to Clean Up 873,000 Inactive Voter Registrations on Rolls," Judicial Watch, May 2026.
- C. Douglas Golden, "DOJ Vows Action After California Blocks Federal Audit of Voter Rolls," Western Journal, June 14, 2026.
- "US Attorney Accuses California of Blocking Voter Roll Audit," Just the News, June 2026.
- Megan Barth, "DOJ Announces Multiple California Election Fraud Investigations," California Globe, June 5, 2026.
- "Nithya Raman Overtakes Republican Spencer Pratt in LA Mayoral Race," Fox News, June 2026.
- "California Woman Facing Felony Charges for Registering Her Dog to Vote," Fox News, September 2025.