As questions continue to swirl around Los Angeles’ mayoral election, newly surfaced videos show homeless individuals on Skid Row claiming they were paid cash to vote for Mayor Karen Bass.
The allegations emerged just days after Republican Spencer Pratt lost a runoff spot as thousands of late-counted mail-in ballots shifted the race.
In an interview on Skid Row posted to X on June 9, one homeless woman claimed she was paid $2 to vote for Bass. “They come out here all the time [to get votes],” she said.
In a separate interview posted this week, another woman on Skid Row claimed she was paid $5 and instructed to vote for Bass.
A third interview featured a man who claimed individuals regularly visit Skid Row to collect personal information from homeless residents in exchange for cash, then use that information to cast ballots.
“They come down here to get your information, then they vote for you—some people will give you three bucks, some five,” said one man living on Skid Row.
Following the final vote count, LA City Councilwoman Nithya Raman finished ahead of Pratt by 29,368 votes, placing second, knocking him out of the race.
Pratt has publicly questioned the results. In a post on X, he noted that Raman’s vote total increased by roughly 43,000 votes as mail-in ballots continued to be counted after election day, a figure he compared to widely cited estimates of Los Angeles’ homeless population.
This isn’t the first time allegations involving payments to homeless individuals for political activity have surfaced in Los Angeles.
Earlier this month, 64-year-old Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong pleaded guilty in federal court to paying people on Skid Row to sign election-related petitions.
According to O’Keefe Media Group, its undercover investigation helped expose Armstrong’s activities. The organization recorded Armstrong allegedly offering cash payments in exchange for petition signatures and later provided evidence to law enforcement authorities.
According to court records cited by The Epoch Times, Armstrong worked for years as a paid petition circulator, collecting signatures for ballot initiatives, referendums, and recall efforts.
The publication reported that Armstrong specifically targeted Skid Row because of its “high concentration of people in a relatively small area who were willing to sign petitions in exchange for cash.”
In a statement to the Daily Signal, O’Keefe Media Group said the latest allegations should be taken seriously.
“Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and we found that fire with Brenda Lee Armstrong on Skid Row. She is not the only person doing these election crimes,” the group said.
O’Keefe Media Group also encouraged concerned voters to visit Skid Row themselves.
“Go to Fifth or Sixth Street—you’d be amazed what you can find on Skid Row in general. What we did was we went down to Skid Row and filmed Brenda and some of her masked colleagues trying to pay people to register to vote, sign petitions fraudulently, and using other real voters’ names.”
Longtime pollster Stefani Buhajla told the Daily Signal that the allegations warrant further scrutiny.
“The allegations against Karen Bass’ campaign are serious and should be investigated thoroughly,” she said. “One thing we do know is that homeless encampments are hotbeds for crime, gang activity, and corruption, and politicians exploiting the vulnerable populations … for gain, while repugnant, is not new. Elected leaders should be focused on compassionate solutions to this crisis, not taking advantage of it.”
The allegations have added to ongoing debate surrounding the mayoral election, particularly among voters already skeptical of California’s lengthy ballot-counting process.
Angelina Delfin is California correspondent for the Daily Signal.
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of AMAC or AMAC Action.
Leave it to democrats to cheat with innovation. But the act will never be punishable by law because they’re in charge. Until these vermin are eradicated at all levels, we are doomed.
I’ll say it again. The Demonrats are a lying, cheating, stealing, no morals, criminal orginazation!
In every election I can remember that allows for late mail-in vote counting almost all of the votes are for the democrat candidate. The republican candidate will have a lead on election day after the polls close for the people who vote on election day, but will eventually lose the election by all of the mail-in votes counted late. If anyone doesn’t think there is no voting fraud they are living on another planet.
California’s elections are so corrupt that the results should be thrown out.
The voting in LA certainly does not pass the smell test!
California is the most corrupt state in the union. It is just shameful to what lengths the democrats will go to win. It’s criminal. It will continue as long as Californians wear blinders and wear ear plugs.
Is anyone surprised? We all know that our voting process has been hijacked by liberal democrats. The mainstream media refuses to discuss it and the powers that be, in many cases, are the powers that be, due to illegal election interference and they act like they know nothing about it. The bottomline is that people with common sense have said all along that mail-in voting should not be permitted, it is too ripe for corruption.
‘Thousands of late counted mail in ballots shifted the race’. Happens all the time, it’s just one of the ways crooked dems “win” elections. Reminds me of what happened in Pa. in the 2020 presidential election. Huge late night Trump lead, magically erased overnight. Imagine that… but there is no cheating. Mid terms are next.
See the CA Dem Machine at work &NO funds for Services needed all to the Homeless Cartel
The dems cheat….what’s new about that? The problem is how to stop it. No one seems to have the means or the brass to make that happen, so it will just keep on being what it is….elections under false pretenses.
This copied from Jerry Todd, posted at another article. I think this explains a lot.
1 day ago
I ran across Psalm 10 in my prayer time the other day. It motivated me to write this The Bible is timeless. As we watch unprincipled people running cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, and states like California, Illinois and New York, this Psalm thoroughly explains the plight of the poor and helpless against the arrogance of those who hold the levers of power
.Psalm 10 expresses a plea to God regarding the arrogance of the wicked and His protection of the helpless. They will not be left wanting as there’s a new Sheriff in town and righteous leaders ready to take the helm.
Psalm 10 (NIV) reads as follows:
This psalm highlights the contrast between the arrogance of the wicked and the vulnerability of the helpless, while affirming God’s justice, protection, and ultimate sovereignty over all nations and individuals. Even aliens and extraterrestrials won’t help the arrogant. They turned out to be demonic who bow to the name of Jesus.
Status Quo for the leftwing Dumocraps.
This has been going on for a very long time and it will never change unless the homeless start voting Republican. Then it would surely be stopped pronto. No danger of that happening.
No wonder they wanted all the illegals in CA and the homeless. They have run out of names from the cemetery. People sold their soul for a measly 2-3 dollars. Really. How generous of Bass. No wonder she let the fires burn in Palisade to get rid of the rich voters. In this world where the fraud is standard fare. Platner can be a Nazi and 97% of the people vote for him. Mamdani got elected. Omar got re-elected because the Somalis were allowed to vote. Tampon Timmy saw to it that happened. He wasn’t about to miss his cut from what the Somalis were ripping off. 9 billion a couple of millions to Timmy was a tip for the Somalis. Karen Bass is the same. She was out of the country at the time of the fire. She had no words or explanation when she came back. Had to wait till someone wrote her a narrative. And till today we still have no explanation as to what happened. We know there was no water no evacuation plan in place and the firemen were helpless before they ever left their stations. Bass didn’t care and still she was in first place. Mr Pratt had a great lead right from the start but like in 2020 sometime in the week following the election changed so dramatically that Raman outpaced him by 43,000 votes really? Will Bass win now? I won’t be surprised if she does. I feel sorry for the citizens in LA and the rest of the state because the reps will loose the governor race as well. The counting will take weeks. Because they have to find a bunch of other voters, illegals and homeless to fill out all those ballots for they won’t know till the returns come in how many they have to fill out so a democrat communist wins. No ID’s is the biggest fraud perpetrated on our election. In a dem state you can be elected when you are an openly Nazi sympathizer, a communist or a foreign infiltrator to bring this country down. TDS and hatred for our President has them in their grasp and the devil is laughing. See here Soros, Pritzker, Gates and any other billionaire that is supporting the democrats and want to run this country and own the people. Don’t forget money got these people elected. Follow the money.
As most of we Conservatives have known for years, the Democrats/Communists win because they cheat! The only way they can dispel our ideas on this subject is to allow their state to update the voter rolls, stop with the month-long ballot voting, stop allowing ballots without a date stamp to get a good date hand written on it, require photo ID and stop creating so many fraudulent “help non-profits” from actually be fraudulent!! It will never happen and our DC government needs to take over until they accomplish all of these criteria! The blue states should not be allowed to with hold information on voter rolls or on welfare rolls. They only do so because they are cheating.
Of course Dems cheated. The GOP does nothing to stop them. Even if you catch them they won’t care because there are NO CONSEQENCES!
Democrats, America’s oligarchs.
$2 doesn’t seem like much incentive but I suppose it is welcome. I have no doubt the Dems play filthy. I cannot believe that Calif. voters are stupid and partisan enough to put incompetents into office but there the illegitimate officials are, embedded and arrogantly confident but it seems almost gleefully ruining city & state.
This is yet another case of the Democratic Party and their allies making yet another attempt to destroy America and the American people! The Democratic Party and their allies are clear enemies and should be stopped at all cost! The Democratic Party and their allies are terrorist and the American people need to stop them at all cost! They want to take our right to bare-arms so they can allow the CCP to walk in and take over! We the American people need to take our country back now!
Unbelievable, except when it is the democrats. This whole election should be declared null and void and just count the votes that came in before the deadline.
Oops, that’s right. California has no deadlines.
Please, can’t we just give California back to Mexico? No longer part of the USA?
The really sad part is that NOTHING will done about it. The democrats will continue to cheat at any and all elections until the end of time unless some one gets the intestinal fortitude to stand up and start prosecuting these low life, corrupt, immoral, cheating domestic terrorists.
I am amazed that ethical people are still backing the democrat party. I would have quit by now and become an Independent voter. How can we ever trust the voting system again?
I’m for paper ballots, black pens, one day voting and mail in ballots will not be counted after midnight of the voting day! We have to bring ethics back into government positions.
Pratt should sue the hell out em, although that might be met with a brick wall I’ll admit.
Does this surprise you? For years, DIMMs have given liberal black pastors “walking around money” to get their people to vote[Democrat]. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc. were always reliable!
Really Karen Bass? Two-dollars? Come on cheater you could have offered more than that.
REMEMBER when Newscum “won” the first time around, 2018. They were calling his WIN before midnight of the day the polls closed. Cox was very close to winning, so tell me WHAT HAPPENED? In the 50s I remember my parents talking about politics regarding the democratic party’s corruption. This has been going on for decades. It all started with Getty, Pat and Jerry Brown, Pelosi, and don’t forget the Newsoms. All democrats, cheating the California Tax Payers!!!
This is no surprise whatsoever, California is the master of cheating!
Interesting, probably true, but so what? Who in Los Angeles or the State of California is going to actually officially “investigate?” When you have one party rule, that party controls “officialdom.” The Democrats control the city, county and state. Taxpayer money was probably used to buy the votes.
Democrats involved in election fraud? Say it isn’t so . . . . Let me check with Captain Obvious on that one. Yup he verified it.
Seriously, is ANYONE SURPRISED? America’s vile, moral-less DemoRATS, the ENEMIES WITHIN, have been doing this for decades, they get away with it, and will continue to get away with this CRIMINAL ACT BULL $HIT.
There was no doubt that the dumocrats would pay people to vote for Bass. What Pratt had to offer LA would have changed everything. He explained so thoroughly what his plans were and they would of gotten done. But was so disappointed when the votes kept coming for her, it just confirmed that the dumocrats had done their thing (cheated once again)
Anyone remember the quote about giving a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, teach him to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime, give a man someone else’s fish, and he’ll vote for you? It’s true.
Such a sad display of corruption. Paying homeless people $2 to $5 to buy votes! CA has been very good at building corruption walls around the whole state by greedy and selfish politicians!
Even as rightful citizens try and throw out this vermin and snakes, they just build more walls. Maybe someday those walls will become the prisons of the vermin and snakes! It can’t happen too soon. Just hope to be able to rescue the victims out of this sea of slime!
In the old days here in Texas, they would circle the county courthouse in a pickup truck and hand out pints of cheap whiskey for votes.
California is one of the most corrupt states for election fraud that is why republicans never win there. When will they stop these corruptions!!!!
LA is like Minneapolis. Both are so buried in corruption, that they’ll likely never dig their way back out to join the rest of society.
Are we lost to Dem corruption? Hell No, Stand strong MAGA
So in spite of these statements of fraud, we are still not going to prosecute an action that will benefit the honest citizens of LA? After the 2020 election in so many of our swing states, I guess law-enforcement has become so accustomed to this, Oh well, we can’t let this happen again. Is the only answer we get. Does it even pay to vote?
I’m amazed that Bass got one single vote, after the fires, with no water available to fight them. What is this mayor’s job? A world traveler?
Corruption at its best! Eliminate mail in ballots, Show proof of identification at the voting poll. Pass the save act! Otherwise nothing is going to change. Get over it!
DENY DENY DENY is the NEW MANTRA of the dem/lib/commie/socialist/fake news ARSE HOLIES CHEATING MACHINE……as they quietly destroy and try to make America in their PERVETED IMAGE……
The REAL problem in all of this general cheating in elections in California is/are the voters themselves who reflexively vote DemoKKKRAT EVERY election. Do they LIKE all the devastation, corruption, homelessness, stealing, drug abuse and general mismanagement in government? Do they ENJOY high taxes on everything including gasoline and diesel fuel? Are they ENCOURAGED by streets full of homeless, drug addicts, clinically insane and swarms of petty thieves closing down businesses? Or are they indifferent to all of it and mesmerized by the pleasant weather? I am totally mystified by their constantly voting DemoKKKRAT as their state crumbles around them.
Why, I’m shocked. SHOCKED!
Dumba$$ocrat$, cheating?! Say it isn’t so. SAY, IT ISN’T SO!
(smmfh again…)
And this was exactly why President Trump walked out of the 60 Minutes interview last week.
Go Trump! We love you!
Lots of talk but nothing is changing. JMO
Amac…WHY did my Comment disappear?
You good People in LA who (dared) to vote Republican? Forget it your Vote did
not count it seems. Something smelly going on.Stand up and be counted!!
It boggles my mind that anyone would sell their vote for a measly $2. Their integrity is extremely lacking. They’d have to pay me somewhere in the neighborhood of $10million to vote for a democrat… LOL Maybe $100million.
Nah, never ever going to vote for a democrat ever no matter how much they try to bribe me to do so.
Paying homeless people to vote for Bass, disgusting yes, but not surprising.
Democrats save democracy by making sure no Republicans ever win!
They paid her to say they paid her to vote lol go away back to your epstien list boy
Have you LISTENED to your recording of this? It is not intelligible. Starts out ok for a few seconds, then it fails spectacularly.