No, Tens of Thousands of Spencer Pratt Ballots Were Not Rejected in Los Angeles — This Story Is Completely Fabricated

A story circulating online claims that tens of thousands of mail-in ballots cast for Spencer Pratt — best known from the MTV reality show The Hills — were rejected in the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral primary. There is no evidence this happened. The claim appears to be entirely made up.

Start with the basics: Spencer Pratt has no credible record of running for Los Angeles mayor in 2026. According to Wikipedia and general public record, he is a reality television personality with no documented political candidacy. You cannot have ballots rejected for a candidate who was never on the ballot.

The Los Angeles City Clerk's Elections Division, which maintains official records of all candidates and ballot activity, shows no record of Pratt appearing in the 2026 mayoral race and no reports of a mass ballot rejection in his name. The Los Angeles Times, which closely covers local elections, has published nothing about this story either.

Major fact-checking organizations including Snopes have found no basis for the claim. It bears the hallmarks of fabricated viral misinformation: a celebrity name, a large dramatic number, and an election fraud angle — all combined with zero sourcing.

To be fair to the strongest version of this claim: election administrators do reject some mail-in ballots for technical reasons every cycle. That is real and documented. But a rejection controversy of this scale, involving a non-candidate, would generate enormous official and media attention. The complete absence of any such coverage is itself strong evidence the story is false.

Stories like this spread because they are designed to. Combining a recognizable celebrity with election integrity fears creates something people want to share before they think to verify. If you see a dramatic election claim with no link to an official source or a named reporter, treat it as fiction until proven otherwise.