A California woman pleaded guilty on Monday for paying homeless people living on Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row to register to vote over a 20-year period.
The illegal signature collection scheme was largely exposed by investigative journalist James O’Keefe, who posed as a homeless man and secretly filmed 64-year-old Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong engaging in the criminal act.
The Trump administration Justice Department thanked O’Keefe during a press conference, crediting his work for the indictment.
“Election Fraudster Brenda Brown has been charged with: 5 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release, Fine of $10,000,” O’Keefe wrote on social media.
“False registrations undermine Americans’ faith in elections – even more so when payoffs are involved,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This Justice Department is committed to ensuring that all U.S. elections are fair and free from illegal meddling – so that all Americans can accept the results with confidence.”
Since Armstrong worked as a paid petition circulator for ballot initiatives, referendums and recalls in California, her job was to gather enough valid signatures to ensure measures would qualify for statewide or local ballots.
The signature farmer needed registered voters to sign the petitions, so she’d illegally pay some individuals to register to vote so their signatures would be accepted.
“Armstrong occasionally solicited petitioned signatures in Skid Row, an area of downtown Los Angeles notorious for its homelessness problem. Skid Row was a convenient place for Armstrong to collect signatures because of its high concentration of people in a relatively small area who were willing to sign petitions in exchange for payment. Armstrong regularly paid and offered to pay individuals cash, usually in amounts between $2 and $3, to induce them to sign her petitions,” a DOJ press release explains.
The notice also states, “Some homeless people did not have an address to put on the forms. On several occasions, Armstrong provided a homeless individual with her own former address in Los Angeles so they had something to write on the registration form. These registration forms simultaneously registered an individual to vote in California elections and in federal elections.”
Check out the O’Keefe footage that led to the indictment below:
CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS FRAUD CASH FOR BALLOTS PART I: Homeless Bribed with Cash & Drugs In Exchange For Registering To Vote & Signing Election Petitions Caught On Tape Undercover On Skid Row In California.
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 17, 2026
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5 Responses
Thank you, James, for doing the government’s job for them
now, will someone in the DOJ follow the money? no.
which NGO was funding it? – then which govt money laundering operation did the NGO get the money from?
many more arrests are needed.
getting the bottom minions does not stop the fraud, just like arresting people selling dime bags never stopped the drugs.
The govt is responsible for funding the election fraud.
just like it was always responsible for running drugs and child trafficking.
Arresing the people on the street is pissing in the wind until the money laundering is stopped. and nobody in govt wants that to stop.
excellent work!
Excellent work!
This is the only election fraud prosecuted by the DOJ so far. If you don’t hand it to them on a silver platter, they’re not interested. If it really matters in terms of affecting major election vote counts, they’re not interested.