Los Angeles homeowners say they are increasingly frustrated as election ballots keep arriving at their homes for people who moved out years ago.
According to The California Post, the ballots have been addressed to former residents and relatives who no longer live at those properties, with some having left as long as six years ago.
The complaints come amid a federal lawsuit claiming California still has more than 873,000 inactive voter registrations on its rolls, including some that are more than 10 years old.
For Pacific Palisades resident Sue Pascoe, the problem has become a repeated source of irritation.
Pascoe, the publisher of Circling The News, lost her home in the January 2025 Palisades Fire. She said that even before the blaze, ballots were still being mailed to her address for family members who no longer lived in California.
“If they’re registered somewhere else, why are ballots still coming here?” Pascoe told The Post.
One son serves in the military, and has even spent time living outside the country. Another is registered to vote in Texas. Her daughter moved away almost six years ago — yet election mail continued arriving at the family’s California address.
Pascoe said she’s tried everything to stop the ballots from arriving — including updating records through the Department of Motor Vehicles and repeatedly trying to remove outdated registrations.
“It’s the expense, the waste and the question of what happens to all these ballots,” she said.
Another Pacific Palisades resident, Sharon Kilbride, told The Post she is still receiving ballots for people who have not used her address in years.
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Kilbride said she previously allowed several people participating in assistance programs to use her address as a mailing location while they sought housing and other services — but ballots keep coming.
“One has been gone for four years and another for five years,” Kilbride said.
The same pattern is surfacing elsewhere across Los Angeles County.
Westside resident Pia Altavilla told The Post her family still receives ballots for her brother despite him moving to Utah four years ago. According to Altavilla, her brother established residency out of state years ago, but election mail continues arriving at the family’s Los Angeles address.
For Altavilla, the continuing stream of election mail illustrates what many homeowners describe as a growing disconnect between where people actually live and where ballots continue to be sent.
Those concerns are now colliding with a growing legal battle over California’s voter rolls.
Days before the June 2 primary election, Judicial Watch filed a federal lawsuit against California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, alleging the state has failed to properly maintain voter registration records as required under the National Voter Registration Act.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner and the American Independent Party of California, centers on 873,092 inactive voter registrations that remain on California’s rolls.
According to the complaint, 326,608 registrations have been inactive for at least three federal election cycles, roughly six years. Another 151,202 have been inactive for four election cycles, approximately eight years.
Plaintiffs argue California has failed to make a reasonable effort to remove registrations belonging to voters who moved away or became otherwise ineligible.
The issue is gaining traction far beyond California.
In one widely shared social media post, a user identified as “Tiffs Notes” claimed she continues receiving ballots for all six of her adult children despite them moving away and registering elsewhere.
“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!!” she wrote.
We reached out to the LA County registrar’s office to ask about the extra ballots.
