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Posted on 05/19/2026 6:43:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Despite evidence to the contrary, liberal voting activists have spent years minimizing cheating concerns and portraying those who want to investigate such problems as “election deniers.” But the Justice Department, FBI and Homeland Security are now systematically exposing electoral fraud from noncitizen voting to ballot-box-stuffing schemes that are turning the table in epic fashion.
The latest strike came Monday when a longtime voting activist in California reached a deal with federal prosecutors to admit to illegally paying homeless people to sign election petitions and paying people to register to vote in a two-decade scheme that allegedly leveraged the Democrat-run state’s lax mail-in voting system, which sends ballot forms to everyone whether they ask for them or not.
The felony charge and plea deal announced Monday against Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, of Marina Del Ray, Calif., not only signals an investigation into others, it likely will provide legal fodder to the U.S. Justice Department’s efforts to force California to turn over voter registration database to look for other abuses.
That case, and others like it against blue states, are working their way through the federal courts in a major initiative led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.
Prosecutors said Armstrong spent two decades collecting ballot registration forms, including in California's high-profile voter initiatives. On occasion, Brown targeted homeless people on Skid Row in Los Angeles, offering them money to fill out forms, and even sometimes letting them use her own address to put on the forms.
The plea deal mentioned Armstrong was paid by "coordinators" to gather signatures for ballots, and she used some of that money to enlist people to register to vote and sign petitions.
"Because her coordinators only paid for signatures attributable to registered voters, Armstrong endeavored to ensure the people who signed her petitions were registered voters," the DOJ said in announcing the plea deal
"Armstrong regularly paid and offered to pay individuals cash, usually in amounts between $2 and $3, to induce them to sign her petitions," DOJ said, adding in January she "knowingly and willfully paid another person to register to vote. She paid the person for the purpose of causing that person to register to vote in federal elections."
Federal prosecutors have not yet disclosed how many registrations or petition signatures were involved in the case.
Nonetheless, that scheme puts another powerful admission on record that America’s election system can be and is being abused.
“Today’s an example where fraud did occur. Not only did Ms. Brown pay people to register to vote, which is illegal, it is a federal crime. She also induced them to place false information on the voter registration," First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said.
Over the last 18 months, the Trump DOJ has brought numerous cases of election fraud all across the country, with a heavy focus on noncitizens getting registered and voting illegally in federal elections. Federal law prohibits foreigners from voting in federal elections.
Just three weeks ago, four green-card resident aliens in New Jersey were charged with illegally voting in federal elections and making false statements while applying for United States citizenship. The case was cracked by a joint operation of the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations, and officials said it was the first of many more to come.
“Securing our elections from criminal actors here at home and around the world is one of the top priorities for this FBI,” FBI Director Kash Patel said. “Noncitizens voting is a federal crime - period - and while other administrations may have looked the other way in the past, those days are over.
Similarly, DOJ secured an indictment in March against an illegal alien from Africa alleging he had illegally voting in a stunning seven federal elections in Pennsylvania.
Mahady Sacko, who came to the United States illegally from Mauritania, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and the FBI in Philadelphia. He has been charged with voter fraud, officials said.
Last summer, the FBI filed a criminal complaint against a Chinese national attending the University of Michigan who illegally registered to vote in the days before the 2024 presidential election, apparently using his University of Michigan student ID, and then casting a ballot at a polling location located on campus.
That case was followed by bombshell admissions over the last few months, reported by Just the News, that China infiltrated as many as 18 states' voter registration database during the 2020 election and sent drivers' fake drivers; licenses to the United States in summer 2020 in what the FBI believed was a scheme to create illegal ballots to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump.
That evidence was suppressed for more than five years from Congress and the American public, officials have admitted.
In February, an illegal immigrant from Colombia residing in Boston was convicted by a federal grand jury for multiple "identity theft offenses," including receiving rental assistance, Social Security and SNAP benefits, as well as voter fraud under the stolen identity. Prosecutors alleged Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, 59, was able to obtain eight state IDs and a Massachusetts Real ID and vote illegally in the 2024 presidential election.
The steady stream of such cases is eroding public trust in election officials who have insisted everything is fine in the face of contrarian evidence.
A poll this spring found only two-thirds of Americans say they are confident their state or local government will run a fair and accurate election, a drop of 10 points since the 2024 presidential election and the lowest level of confidence since Marist began measuring it. Democrats and independents were the most likely to lose confidence in elections over the last two years, the poll found.
The ramped up prosecutions also come as Dhillon, the top election integrity official inside DOJ, has taken action against more than two dozen states to either clean up their voter rolls or turn over their rolls for the federal government to inspect them. Many states are resisting.
Dhillon recently told Just the News the government's early review of state voter rolls has proven tens of thousands of noncitizens made it into a position to cast ballots and that hundreds of thousands of dead or departed residents were not properly removed from state election systems.
"It's really frustrating that we're being prevented from doing our job," she said, criticizing state election offices and federal judges who are blocking her office from her historic effort to obtain and review every state's voter roll ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Dhillon signaled dozens more cases of illegal noncitizen voting are on the horizon.
"For every person that we've seen a story about, I know of dozens and dozens more cases, and U.S. attorney's offices are wanting to bring these cases, but we have, of course, interference with the very appointment of these U.S. attorneys at the political level," she explained. "So that's above my pay grade, but it's really frustrating that we're being prevented from doing our job."
Evidence of election fraud also is piling up in state and local courts.
At least four elections in the U.S. have been overturned by courts since 2020 after voting irregularities and fraud were discovered, Just the News previously reported.
Last month, former Kansas mayor Jose Ceballos, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty to voter fraud after admitting he voted as a green card resident. Ceballos, who resigned as mayor after he was charged, was taken into custody by US immigration authorities last week and could be deported, officials and his lawyer have said.
Also last month, the New Jersey attorney general's office announced that a former mayoral candidate pleaded guilty guilty after he attempted to file numerous fraudulent voter registration applications in connection with a June 2021 city election.
Henrilynn Ibezim, 71, of Plainfield, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on April 27, 2026, during a hearing before Judge Candido Rodriguez, Jr. in New Jersey Superior Court in Union County. The defendant admitted to count five of the indictment against him, charging him with one count of third-degree forgery.
Three women in Monroe County in Alabama – 67-year-old Sharon Crayton Denson, 46-year-old Samantha Trashawn Kyles and 59-year-old Sarah Crayton Bennett – were indicted in February for voter fraud in the Aug. 26, 2025, Frisco City municipal election. They allegedly tampered with 20 people's ballots.
Five Democratic Party members in Bridgeport, Conn., and Philadelphia were criminally charged with numerous counts of voter fraud on both the state and federal levels regarding mail-in ballots over the last few years and in one case the cheating was so extensive an election had to be negated and done over.
Bridgeport, Conn, had to redo primary and general elections last year after evidence surfaced of alleged ballot harvesting in the Democratic mayoral primary in September 2023.
A jury in March also convicted a Wisconsin man of election fraud and identity theft after he requested the ballots of state Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Democratic Mayor Cory Mason without their consent.
Harry Wait, 71, admitted Tuesday in court that in 2022 he ordered the ballots in an attempt to highlight alleged vulnerabilities in the state's election system. That case followed another high-profile election fraud cases in which a former Milwaukee election official was found guilty of misconduct in office in 2024 after she obtained three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers in 2022 and was sentenced to one year probation and ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
While most of the cases in the cast few years have involved Democrat or liberal figures, sometimes Republicans have been ensnared too,
Elizabeth Ann Davis, 61, of Castle Rock, Colo, was convicted last fall in state court of two counts of forgery and one count of impersonating an elector for submitting mail ballots for her late ex-husband and her son, in addition to her own ballot, in the 2022 general election. Davis is a Republican, according to the Associated Press. The DA's office noted that Davis "has an extensive criminal record, including prior convictions for forgery, theft, drug offenses, and prostitution in both Florida and/or Colorado."
"Those who seek to corrupt our elections or dilute our votes – by even a single ballot – will find a DA’s office intent on their incarceration," District Attorney George Brauchler said at the time.
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I don’t want to see the small fry locked up, I want to see the people who are really behind it locked up. Of course, we’ll never see that, because those people have too many friends in Congress and the White House.
This all began around 2000 when on Craigslist CA looking for Craigslist NV to swap ballets.
Since no one ever looked into it, they figured they could get away with just about anything.
Agreed! We know there’s fraud; we know there’s corruption. But what we don’t know is why no one has ever been arrested?
As you say, we don’t want the small fry; we want big names! But someone must be held accountable!
Correct. There is brain bug behind the massive Democrat scheme to steal elections. The feds need to turn the small fry to squeal on their handlers.
They also have money behind them to fund legal expenses, not to mention friendly judges.
“For every person that we’ve seen a story about, I know of dozens and dozens more cases, and U.S. attorney’s offices are wanting to bring these cases, but we have, of course, interference with the very appointment of these U.S. attorneys at the political level,” she explained. “So that’s above my pay grade, but it’s really frustrating that we’re being prevented from doing our job.”
John Brennan: We are Legion.
It’s looking now as if Todd Blanche is more interested in issuing reports about 2020 election theft than actually prosecuting the big people in the scheme. He seems like a risk-adverse weasel who will stop anybody else from being able to do what is necessary to stop this in its tracks and bring real accountability.
Pray, pray, pray, cuz only God can get us out of this, and He will only do it if the people repent.
Davis is a Republican, according to the Associated Press. The DA’s office noted that Davis “has an extensive criminal record, including prior convictions for forgery, theft, drug offenses, and prostitution in both Florida and/or Colorado.”
doesn’t sound like a republican to me
I hadda work in that sewer of a state for several years and was flabbergasted at the fraud. Only a kindergartner could not know they were stealing elections. And only a liberal could deny it.
Anyone who lives in California knows these are damned lies.
No ID to vote. Illegals voting. Everyone gets a mail-in ballot. 30 days to count ballots. Legal vote harvesting.
If CA is so liberal, why does Deep State have to steal its elections...?
Even LA’s.
Think about that.
It isn’t.
California used to be a reliable REPUBLICAN state..........
Solomon is doing great work reporting on vote fraud. He is really good. His point about a recent poll showing people (especially Dems) losing confidence in elections is excellent.
Some folks just don’t understand. It’s okay for them to do it. Because it’s more fairer to them that way. 🤔😁👍
From ChatGpt: In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Joe Biden received about 81.3 million votes nationally (51.3% of the popular vote).
In the 2024 election, Kamala Harris received about 75.0 million votes (roughly 48.3% of the popular vote). �
The American Presidency Project +2
So compared to Biden’s 2020 total, Harris received approximately:
6.3 million fewer votes nationwide
It would be interesting to see who these “No Show” voters actually were. Seems like it could reveal some of the Democrat’s methods.
btt
Ace reporting by John Solomon’s “Just the News,” showed that:
<><>China infiltrated as many as 18 states’ voter registration database during the 2020 election
<><>they sent fake drivers’ licenses to the US in the summer of 2020
<><>l/e says this scheme created illegal Democrat ballots to elect Biden and defeat Trump.
<><>evidence of fraud hidden from Congress and the American public for years.
I want the small fry locked up. Why should they be exempt? If the small fry are prosecuted and locked up the big fry cease to operate.
Same as the war on drugs. Until the demand side is squelched the supply side will continue to meet demand. Lock up the users and the pushers go away.
Voters demand their grift. Social Security, corn lobby ethanol, crony tariff exemptions, windmills, electric cars, giverment employee unions, mortgage subsidies, etc. There is illegal vote buying but it’s dwarfed by the legal vote buying.
Non existent persons.............
Apologies for being a nattering nabob, but it seems Solomon has been exposing leftist corruption for years, with little or nothing ever coming of it.
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