Charge dismissed in case of dog registered to vote Posted September 12, 2008 FEDERAL WAY, Wash. -- 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 had been charged with making a false statement but entered into a plea agreement last year. A judge dismissed the charge last month after Balogh showed that she had paid $240 in court costs and completed community service. Balogh says she registered her dog Duncan to protest a loophole in the law she says makes voter registration so easy a nonexistent person could be added to the voter rolls. She says she made no secret of her action after the fact, telling a number of elected officials she had registered her dog. And she says Duncan never voted.