LA County addresses leaked checklist of Hollywood megastars dragged into baffling voting debacle

Los Angeles County officers have responded to allegations a number of Hollywood celebrities might have improperly registered to vote utilizing a enterprise handle reasonably than their residential addresses.

“Our workplace has obtained and reviewed current queries relating to voter registration information and this handle,” a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk instructed The Put up.

“Below California legislation, voters should register on the handle they determine as their domicile or residence. The topic handle is classed as each business and residential.”

The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk mentioned a voter registration software will not be rejected solely as a result of the handle offered seems to be a enterprise or different non-traditional residential location, offered the applying in any other case meets authorized necessities.

Hollywood stars together with Jennifer Aniston, Jenna Dewan and Nicollette Sheridan have been allegedly registered to vote utilizing the handle of a West Hollywood monetary administration workplace reasonably than their houses.

In accordance with the Day by day Mail, 36 voters have been linked to Suite 600 of a constructing on Sundown Boulevard that serves because the workplace of economic adviser Michael Ullman and his agency, Platinum Monetary Administration.

“If a voter attests beneath penalty of perjury that an handle constitutes their residence or domicile, and the registration in any other case meets authorized necessities, the registration should be processed,” the spokesperson added, noting officers have been “reviewing these information primarily based on the question obtained to evaluate whether or not these protocols are relevant.”

The outlet reported the registrations listed the workplace handle as a residence reasonably than merely a mailing handle.

Among the many celebrities recognized have been Katheryn Winnick, Laura Harrier, Matt Czuchry, Debbie Gibson and Hamish Linklater.

Ullman mentioned he was conscious some superstar shoppers used the workplace for mail functions however disputed any suggestion that they lived there.

“They don’t reside right here,” Ullman instructed the outlet. “It’s only a mailing handle, but it surely’s not their residential handle. So it will get mailed right here, however they voted of their space.”

“The existence of a number of voter registrations at a specific handle doesn’t, by itself, point out a problem with the voter registration course of,” the county registrar mentioned. “Based mostly on illustration that voters could also be registered at a non-residential handle, we have now protocols to assessment and search affirmation.”

In accordance with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s FAQ web page, an individual might solely register to vote at their place of residence. A enterprise handle or P.O. Field could also be used solely as a mailing handle.

The report alleges a number of high-profile celebrities might have listed their managers’ enterprise addresses as their major residences on voter registration kinds, a apply that would probably represent perjury if the handle was not their precise residence and will have an effect on the jurisdiction wherein they voted.

“Hollywood celebrities have spent years lecturing America concerning the sanctity of democracy and the significance of each vote.

“Now we study that dozens of them couldn’t be bothered to comply with probably the most fundamental rule of voter registration: signal your identify and state the reality about the place you reside,” election knowledgeable Matt Klink instructed The Put up.

The outlet additionally reported that not one of the 36 registrants related to the workplace appeared to have confidentiality exemptions that might defend their dwelling addresses from public information.

The California Put up has not independently reviewed the voter registration information cited by the Day by day Mail.

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