Nick Shirley - How Did a Dog Vote in 2 California Elections? | SRS #297

TL;DR

A Republican woman registered her dog to vote in California, and it successfully voted in one election before she turned herself in, exposing how easy fraud is without voter ID.

Key Points

• 1.A dog successfully voted in a California election. A Republican woman registered her dog under its own name; it voted in the first election and was only caught in the second because she reported herself — the first vote still counted.
• 2.California's voter rolls are riddled with impossible registrations. People listed as 126 years old have voted in 55 elections; others are registered to UPS boxes, which is illegal as a domicile address.
• 3.California requires only a signature match to verify votes. No ID is needed — voters simply state their name, sign, and receive a ballot, making impersonation trivially easy across 10+ million ballots.
• 4.California's Medicaid (Medi-Cal) budget more than doubled with almost no population growth. It went from $108 billion for 39.9 million enrollees in 2022 to a proposed $222 billion for 40 million enrollees in 2026.
• 5.Armenian and Russian mafias are running fraudulent hospice operations in LA. One-third of all U.S. hospices are in LA County; investigators found up to 89 fake hospices in a single building, billing Medicare with no actual patients.
• 6.Identity theft through Medicare beneficiary numbers is killing patients. Fraudsters enroll victims in hospice without their knowledge, causing people to be denied surgeries and emergency care when they seek treatment.
• 7.The Russian mafia called Nick Shirley's mother directly to warn him off the investigation. This was revealed exclusively on this podcast and is the first time Shirley has discussed the threat publicly.
• 8.Minnesota allows vouching — one person can vote on behalf of multiple others with no ID. This systemic gap, combined with no voter ID requirement, mirrors California's vulnerabilities.
• 9.The SAVE Act would require voter ID for federal elections and a California ballot proposition is underway. Enough signatures were gathered to put voter ID on a California proposition, though enforcement remains a separate challenge.
• 10.NGOs running California's homeless industrial complex are accumulating half-billion-dollar asset portfolios. They buy hotels, house low-income Section 8 tenants instead of homeless people, and collect ~$1,800/month per unit while tenants pay $30, with no incentive to solve homelessness.