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YOU ARE BUSTED! Democrats paid homeless to vote

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

That thing that Democrats claim never happens just happened again.

A key player in largest Democratic state in the union just got busted coaching and paying homeless people to sign phony voter registration forms in a fiesta of fraud that could let one person collect multiple mail-in ballots.

Fittingly, this ballot scam originated in a part of America as dirty as voter fraud itself.

The notorious section of Los Angeles known as Skid Row is home to an estimated 3,800 homeless people who, like most people in any Democrat-run economy, are desperate to make ends meet.

Enter 64-year-old Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, who approached L.A.’s huge population that cannot with an offer many of them couldn’t refuse: She’d pay them to register to vote at a fake address and then sign her petition.

It’s amazing how cheap fraudsters can buy a vote.

Armstrong, who goes by the name “Anika,” admitted in court this week that she offered California’s homeless anywhere between $2 and $3 apiece.

While Armstrong paid the urban poor a pittance to sign that petition, she and her group of canvassers promoted, which would put ballot or recall initiatives on the ballot, there was a catch: Armstrong only got paid for signatures of registered voters. Most people on Skid Row aren’t registered voters. So, Armstrong had an answer. She’d help them fill out phony voter registration forms.

“Now, because you haven’t registered, I need to register so you, so I can get paid, too,” Brown told one cash recipient in an undercover video.

One of her canvassers told someone to register at “Pinocchio Lane.”

Sometimes, Armstrong would tell the homeless to use her old address—which means Armstrong would personally control a small army of mail-in ballots, opening the door to even greater election interference.

But thanks to candid video taken by conservatives embedded in her organization, she got busted.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division posted a copy of a May 7 indictment charging Armstrong with a specific case of paying a man to register to vote in a federal election on January 30.

Armstrong accepted a plea bargain Monday in the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California, the Department of Justice announced. She faces five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $10,000 fine.

“False registrations undermine Americans’ faith in elections – even more so when payoffs are involved,” said Dhillon. The Trump administration will take every available action to assure “all U.S. elections are fair and free from illegal meddling – so that all Americans can accept the results with confidence.”

“Election integrity matters!” said Dhillon.

Armstrong’s plea involves only one count of fraud but does not contest the facts presented by the DOJ that allege years of illicit activities.

What’s more, eyewitnesses have Armstrong dead to rights.

“We personally witnessed and covertly filmed this happening at least 28 times over the span of our investigation,” said investigative journalist James O’Keefe of the O’Keefe Media Group, “and that is just in Los Angeles.”

The Armstrong plea also points out a problem with California’s universal vote-by-mail scheme. “Because California automatically sends a vote-by-mail ballot to every registered voter, this also meant ballots in some homeless individuals’ names could have the potential to be sent to Armstrong’s former residence where the homeless individual did not live or collect mail,” reported the DOJ.

If anybody knows how mail-in ballots can destroy election integrity, it’s President Donald Trump.

After hearing the news, DOJ officials promised to lower the boom on California—cutting the legs out from under the deep-blue state’s attempts to increase the number of voters in this shrinking state and giving a black eye to Governor Gavin Newsom as he ramps up his 2028 presidential campaign.

“California’s lax attitude towards voter registration endangers our democracy. We won’t stand by when ballot box corruption threatens the foundations of our republic,” said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli.

Conservatives say this case puts the lie to left-wing claims that there is no such thing as voter fraud.

“Our elections are perfect; there is no fraud, and we don’t need to pay attention to such things because they don’t exist. At least, that’s what the Democrats will tell you as they do everything in their power to stop the SAVE America Act, which would require you to provide an ID to vote,” wrote Bob Hoge at RedState.com. “How will they explain this, though, I wonder.”

In fact, this is not the only election where the Justice Department is turning up evidence of election fraud.

“There’s a ton of evidence that the election was rigged” and has been “for many, many years,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures hostess Maria Bartiromo on May 17. Unfortunately, Democrats are “very good at hiding up misconduct.”

While 2020 is in the past, all indications show California liberals have hit on a whole new frontier of voter fraud: letting non-Americans vote “legally.”

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who is running for reelection against Republican Spencer Pratt, told Politico reporter Melanie Mason “we need to explore” ways to let non-citizens vote in L.A. elections.

As the same time, Soros-funded prosecutors have threatened to prosecute ICE agents who arrest illegal aliens at polling places during the 2026 midterm elections—or “frighten voters away from the ballot box,” in the words of Mary Moriarty, County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota (the Twin Cities). The effort is led by the so-called Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach, a coalition of far-Left district attorneys from such Democratic strongholds as Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Dallas.

What a strange coincidence: Just as Democrats wants to let non-citizens vote in U.S. elections, they are doing everything they can to stop President Trump from deporting illegal aliens in the voting booths.

One-third of Americans are not confident or very confident that the outcomes of their elections are legitimate, according to a PBS News/NPR/Marist poll released in March. That’s a drop of 10 points since October 2024 and the “lowest point in years,” according to PBS.

That fact is likely true, even though it was reported by PBS.

Voters have real and lasting concerns over election integrity. President Trump knows how easy it is for Democrats to bribe bums and illegals to vote in U.S. elections, stuff ballot boxes with mail-in ballots sent to phony addresses, discover boxes of new ballots in the middle of the night, and block out the windows when voters try to watch you count the “votes.”

The California plea deal pulls up the shades and shines a light on the Democrats’ dark, dirty game of election fraud. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and cockroaches scatter when the lights come on.

Unfortunately, this case proves there are worse vermin than cockroaches preying on the homeless on Skid Row.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”