Orange County officials directed the county registrar to cross-reference voter rolls with pet registration data in the county to make sure no pets are registered to vote.

The effort to clean up voter rolls comes after a woman was charged with registering her dog to vote in Orange County.

There are Democrats, Republicans and Independents, but now Orange County officials are trying to identify how many dogs and cats may be registered to vote.

On Tuesday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors directed staff to cross-reference voter rolls with pet registration data in the county in order to make sure there are no four-legged voters with names like Fido, Fifi, Spot, Sparky or Lucky casting ballots in the next special election in November.

“How do we check that dogs and cats or whatever are

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