A liberal group just got caught mailing voter registration forms to the dead.
Now Georgia's election chief is demanding to know who is bankrolling the operation.
The answer involves a shadowy nonprofit hiding its donors – and a trail its leaders worked hard to bury.
Voter Registration Fraud Finds a New Low in Georgia
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger launched a formal investigation this week after his office received a flood of complaints about voter registration mailers sent to dead Georgians – including at least one sent to a family dog named Sheba.
"You do realize Sheba is my dead dog," one Georgia resident wrote to Raffensperger's office after receiving the solicitation.
The mailers came from a group called Ready to Register, which bills itself as a "nonprofit social welfare organization dedicated to encouraging civic participation through voter registration."
Raffensperger is not buying it.
"Whether intentional or simply reckless, these mail campaigns operate like a grift – raising money and generating activity while shifting the costs onto taxpayers, election officials, and voters," Raffensperger said.
North Carolina election officials had already flagged Ready to Register before Georgia's investigation launched – warning residents the group sent forms to deceased individuals, listed wrong election office addresses, used outdated registration documents, and embedded QR codes that raised privacy concerns.
Who Is Really Behind Ready to Register
Ready to Register took deliberate steps to conceal the identity of its financial backers, according to the Washington Post.
The group did not respond to media inquiries before publication.
Raffensperger's office confirmed it is reviewing whether the mailings violate Georgia law or undermine confidence in the state's election system.
The group's own website instructs recipients to fill out a pre-filled voter registration form and mail it to their local elections authority – civic participation theater that left a dead Georgia dog one completed form away from the voter rolls.
Dead Voters on the Rolls Are Not a Glitch They Are the Goal
The Heritage Foundation's election fraud database documents this pattern across decades and dozens of states – organizations generating registrations tied to deceased individuals, fictional names, and ineligible recipients.
In 2024, Samunta Shomine Pittman was charged in Fulton County, Georgia with 70 counts of felony fraudulent entries for filling out fictitious names on voter registration applications while canvassing for a left-wing advocacy group called the Coalition for the People's Agenda.
Raffensperger said the core problem is that groups like Ready to Register bypass Georgia's rigorous data standards entirely.
"Groups like this highlight the unreliability of commercial data," he said. "These outside organizations don't use those standards. Instead, they flood mailboxes with inaccurate solicitations that confuse voters and waste election officials' time."
Georgia's official process uses federal death records, interstate data matching, and citizenship verification to keep rolls accurate.
In California a Dog Actually Voted and Democrats Called It a Non-Emergency
Georgia's Sheba got a mailer.
California's Maya Jean actually voted.
In 2021, a Costa Mesa woman named Laura Lee Yourex registered her dog, Maya Jean Yourex, with the Orange County Registrar of Voters.
Maya Jean cast a mail-in ballot in the 2021 recall election of Gavin Newsom – and that ballot was counted.
When a 2022 primary ballot arrived addressed to the dog, Orange County officials challenged and rejected it, because first-time federal voters must provide proof of residence.
The Orange County district attorney filed criminal charges against Yourex in September 2025 – four years after the first fraudulent ballot was cast.
California's registration system accepted the dog's application because the state does not require proof of ID for state elections.
Democrats spent those four years fighting voter ID laws, attacking roll cleanup efforts, and suing states like Georgia every time they moved to close exactly this kind of gap.
Now a group with hidden backers is mailing registration forms to Sheba in Georgia – and the Democrat answer is to sue Raffensperger for cleaning the rolls.
They built this system. They intend to keep it.
Sources:
- Kim Jarrett, "Georgia election chief says dead dog received voter solicitation mail," Just the News, July 10, 2026.
- Georgia Secretary of State, "Deceased Georgians Targeted by Voter Registration Mailers; Raffensperger Orders Investigation," sos.ga.gov, July 2026.
- Georgia Secretary of State, "Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Responds to Latest Lawsuit from Abrams–Elias Allies," sos.ga.gov.
- Heritage Foundation, Election Fraud Database, electionfraud.heritage.org.
- Washington Examiner, "Raffensperger leads election integrity effort targeting thousands of inactive Georgia voters," July 29, 2025.
- NBC Los Angeles, "California woman accused of registering dog to vote tried to make a point, attorney says," September 10, 2025.