- What Happened: YouTuber Nick Shirley released a video with a whistleblower exposing irregularities in California's voter rolls, including voters registered to a public storage unit, a mail store, and individuals listed as 125 years old.
- Why It Matters: Three people registered to a storage unit actually cast votes in the 2024 presidential election, and California law prohibits registering at any address that is not your primary residence.
- Bottom Line: Newsom's office mocked Shirley instead of addressing the evidence, while President Trump pushes the SAVE Act to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
A YouTuber just did the job California's government refuses to do, and Governor Gavin Newsom responded by calling him stupid.
Nick Shirley released a roughly 22-minute video alongside a whistleblower who dug into California's public voter roll records and found a mess that should alarm every American who believes elections should be clean and fair. Shirley and the whistleblower hit the pavement and visited actual addresses listed on the voter rolls. What they found was damning.
Five people were registered to vote at a public storage unit. Three of those five cast a ballot in the 2024 presidential election. At a separate mail store, 30 people were registered to vote. California law is crystal clear that you cannot register using an address that is not your primary residence. Somebody forgot to tell the 35 people voting from a storage unit and a mailbox.
Then there were the voters listed as 125 years old. Because apparently California is also registering people who would have been born in 1900.
"California is the breeding ground for voter fraud in America, as millions of people vote with no ID, month-long election processes, inaccurate voter rolls, dead people caught voting, even a dog successfully registered to vote, and voter verification is all based on your signature, not who you actually are," Shirley wrote on X.
🚨 California is the breeding ground for voter fraud in America, as millions of people vote with no ID, month-long election processes, inaccurate voter rolls, dead people caught voting, even a dog successfully registered to vote, and voter verification is all based on your… pic.twitter.com/7nOIZe5x9D
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) February 16, 2026
Newsom's press office did not dispute the storage unit. They did not explain the 125-year-old voters. Instead they called Shirley "Slow Shirley" and suggested he enroll in community college.
That is what it looks like when a government has no real answer.
President Trump and Republican lawmakers are pushing the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. California will fight it tooth and nail. Ask yourself why.

