(August 27, 2008)--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 was charged with making a false statement, but she entered into a plea agreement last year.
A judge in King County 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, named Duncan, to protest a loophole in the law that she says makes voter registration so easy a nonexistent person could be added to the voter rolls.
She says she made no secret of what she did, even telling a number of elected officials she had registered her dog.
Duncan, she said, never voted.
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