Charges dropped for woman who registered dog to vote
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The Associated Press reports:
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 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 that 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. And she says Duncan never voted.