California Ballots Mailed to Ex-Residents Nationwide as DOJ Demands Full Audit

A familiar election scandal is once again dominating conversations on X: California ballots are being mailed to voters who no longer live in the state, sometimes years after they’ve relocated and re-registered elsewhere. 

The platform is trending hard with the issue, with users sharing screenshots, affidavits, and frustration over what many call a deliberate failure by Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office to maintain accurate voter rolls.

X user “Leigh Wolf” rang the familiar alarm: “You can show libs objective evidence of a deeply flawed election system in CA and lib journals will still act like you’re a conspiracy theorist. I have a ballot to vote in the California primary, but I’ve lived in Virginia for years. The state has been notified (twice) over the last ten years that I left the state, but they keep sending me ballots. I could have *easily* voted in Tuesday’s election, but Aaron here acts like everything is just fine.”

You can show libs objective evidence of a deeply flawed election system in CA and lib journos will still act like you’re a conspiracy theorist.

I have a ballot to vote in the California primary, but I’ve lived in Virginia for years.

The state has been notified (twice) over… https://t.co/rmMKDmV6SS pic.twitter.com/njCefquKbA

— 🐺 (@LeighWolf) June 4, 2026

Wolf was responding to CNN’s Senior Political Reporter Aaron Blake who flexed his journalism chops to lambast Governor Ron DeSantis’ comments on California’s notorious ballot dumps—that *always* favor Democrat candidates. This statistical improbability is labeled by Blake as an attempt by the Florida governor to”baselessly seed suspicion.” In response, one user correctly noted, “Intellectual curiosity. Try it sometime.”

Not sure I will ever get used to how casually powerful people baselessly seed suspicion about our elections like this.

Call California ridiculously slow, by all means. But this goes well beyond that. https://t.co/g9efaHDuGg

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) June 4, 2026

Another replied that her six kids who moved and re-registered in a new county/state still receive “a ton” of California ballots every election. She, unlike Aaron Blake, correctly observes and warns, “Some people wouldn’t think twice about using all these ballots to cast more votes.”

@AaronBlake my six kids have all moved notified the state and re-registered to vote in their new counties and we STILL receive a TON of ballots for all of them for every election!!

Some people wouldn’t think twice about using all these ballots to cast more votes! pic.twitter.com/uYu61kjWkb

— Tiffany ❤🇺🇲 (@Tiffs_Notes) June 4, 2026

This latest  firestorm comes on the heels of the Department of Justice leveraging a decades-long “cash-for-ballots” scheme on Los Angeles’ Skid Row to demand a full audit of California’s voter rolls. Independent journalists and federal prosecutors uncovered an operation where individuals were allegedly paid to register to vote using false addresses. Authorities are now pressing Weber’s office for a comprehensive audit, citing the scandal as clear evidence that the state’s rolls cannot be trusted. 

In our related coverage, we highlighted a specific Nevada case: a registered Democrat who moved from the Bay Area to Northern Nevada in 2022 continues to receive a California ballot every election cycle. The individual is legally registered to vote in Nevada, yet California’s system keeps treating them as an active in-state voter. At that time, Editor-in-Chief Katy Grimes was contacted by a family in Oklahoma who had received California ballots. 

This isn’t an isolated glitch. It’s part of a pattern the Globe has documented for years. 

In earlier reporting, California Globe readers and sources described the same problem. One commenter in a 2022 story shared: “My husband and I continue to receive California ballots although we no longer live in California and are registered in another state. So corrupt.” 

Multiple families who relocated to Nevada, Arizona, and even Texas have reported receiving unsolicited mail-in ballots from California counties long after updating their addresses with the U.S. Postal Service and re-registering locally.  

Compounding the obvious election issues that CNN willfully ignores: Judicial Watch recently filed a federal lawsuit against Secretary Weber, exposing over 873,000 inactive voter registrations lingering on California’s rolls, some dormant for three, four, or even more federal election cycles. The watchdog group warns that these “ghost voters” create serious risks in a state with universal mail-in balloting, where ballots are automatically sent to every name on the list.  

California’s permanent vote-by-mail system, expanded during the pandemic under Democratic leadership, automatically sends ballots to every registered voter on the rolls unless they specifically opt out or are purged for inactivity. But as Judicial Watch has uncovered, inactive voters have remained on the rolls for decades. Critics further argue the state’s notoriously bloated and outdated voter database, plagued by duplicates, deceased registrants, and movers, makes these errors not only inevitable but suspiciously convenient for one-party rule.

Meanwhile, Secretary Weber’s office has remained largely silent on the specific out-of-state mailing complaints, even as the DOJ pushes for transparency. This comes despite repeated warnings from election integrity groups and past Globe investigations showing ballots mailed to vacant lots, commercial addresses, and out-of-state residences.

California Democrats refuse to implement basic safeguards like proof-of-citizenship requirements or Voter ID, measures a majority of Californians now support according to recent polling. A Voter ID, citizenship verification, and voter list administration initiative has qualified for the November 2026 ballot. 

The California Globe will continue tracking this story as more evidence surfaces. Californians deserve elections they can trust– not a system that treats voter rolls as an afterthought while flooding mailboxes across state lines with ballots that could be misused and tabulated, or discarded.

Stay tuned to California Globe for updates.

Editor’s note: If you or someone you know has received a California ballot after moving out of state, contact us at editor@californiaglobe.com.