Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced on Wednesday (December 4) that a man in Ventura County is facing four counts of perjury criminal charges for allegedly submitting voter registration applications for cartoon cats.
63-year-old Bruce Boyer is accused of submitting four voter registrations for “cartoon cats” to the county registrar’s office. Nasarenko stated that each registration included Boyer’s address and was signed under penalty of perjury. Boyer ran for Ventura County sheriff in 2018, county clerk in 2022, and a congressional seat in March of this year, none of which he won.
“Our office is committed to ensuring that every vote cast is legitimate, and those accused of undermining the integrity of our election process will face consequences,” Nasarenko said in a press release on Wednesday. County officials detected these voter registration forms for cartoon cats and flagged them as suspicious.
Boyer appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday, with his arraignment postponed to January 17 next year. Despite the prosecution requesting a $100,000 bail, Boyer was released on his own recognizance.
According to court documents filed on November 22, prosecutors allege that Boyer submitted these fraudulent registrations on September 27, September 30, October 21, and October 25. Boyer claimed on Thursday that according to California’s voter registration system, these false registrations should have been accepted. Earlier this year, upon learning that his neighbor had registered to vote for his cat, Boyer also used California’s voter registration system to submit a voter registration application for “Felix T. Cat.”
This cat’s date of birth was listed as January 1, 1982, and Boyer claimed that it was a member of the American Cat Party and could speak English. He stated that the registration process did not require any identification or social security number. Boyer used his neighbor’s address to register this cat. Subsequently, his neighbor received a letter from the state government requesting “Felix T. Cat” to sign in order to validate the registration.
Boyer stated that he did not sign the registration, but it made him question the fairness of the voting system. “If you can register to vote for a cartoon character, then the whole system is a fraud,” he said.
According to a bail request submitted by Nasarenko on December 2, the district attorney’s office accused Boyer of submitting four false voter registration applications through the mail under the names Cool T. Cat, Estrea D. Tigre, Fritz T. Cat, and Sylvester T. Cat. “The handwritten signatures on all the fictitious cat voter registration forms appear to match Boyer’s handwriting on his sheriff candidate form and his county clerk and voter candidate forms,” the district attorney’s office stated. “Additionally, Boyer listed his address on each cat’s voter registration application.”
On January 23, Boyer testified at a Ventura County Board of Supervisors meeting expressing his concerns about California’s and various counties’ voter registration systems, mentioning his registration of “Felix T. Cat” as a voter. “In Boyer’s remarks, I believe what he was trying to convey is that committing voter fraud is quite easy in Ventura County,” Nasarenko wrote in the indictment. “It appears that Boyer is challenging the voter registration process and attempting to register votes for fictional cats.”
According to the district attorney, Boyer was arrested on September 19 for disrupting order at a gathering unrelated to the current charges, and he has been arrested multiple times since 2004. Boyer announced his intention to run for Congress again in 2026, claiming that under the county’s voter laws, the voter registrations for these cartoon cats should be approved. “If the clerk fails to register them to vote, then the clerk is breaking the law,” he said.
District Attorney spokesperson Joey Buttitta emphasized that the registrations were discovered before any action was taken. In an email to Epoch Times, he said, “They (voter registration applications for cartoon cats) were found by the county clerk’s office and were not actually registered.”