Posted on 06/10/2026 6:18:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
In the shadows of downtown Los Angeles, where human suffering piles up in tents and despair, a disturbing pattern has emerged. Homeless residents on Skid Row are coming forward with claims that they were paid small sums of cash to cast ballots for Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman. These allegations, captured in videos and shared with federal authorities, strike at the heart of election integrity in a city already reeling from policy failures that have turned streets into open-air encampments.
VIDEO HERE:
Skid Row homeless claim they’ve been paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman https://t.co/bElx1nmQM2 pic.twitter.com/cQ7dvgR59r— California Post (@californiapost) June 10, 2026
This is not mere politics as usual. It is the predictable fruit of a system where compassion is weaponized for power.
While Bass and Raman position themselves as champions of the downtrodden, reports suggest their machines may have treated Skid Row as a harvest field for votes rather than a mission field for restoration. The very people failed by years of progressive governance now appear to be props in the game of maintaining it.
Videos obtained by the New York Post show multiple Skid Row residents describing outreach efforts in stark terms. One man identifying as Kevin Shepherd claimed he received $4 to vote for Bass, negotiating up from an initial $2 offer. He stated the groups offered an “optional choice” but steered clear of other candidates like Spencer Pratt. Another resident, Rene Johnson, 39, said she took $5 to support Bass, later expressing unease about the forms she signed and acknowledging the behavior as fraudulent even as she distanced herself from direct wrongdoing.
A third woman living on the streets recounted accepting $2, noting that such visits were routine. Resident Mark Sanchez alleged repeated payments of $4 or $5 for signing petitions and forms tied to the mayor’s office and other positions. These accounts paint a picture of coordinated efforts, with groups allegedly visiting the area three to five times weekly in the lead-up to the election.
The timing adds weight to the concerns. The videos surfaced as Raman surged past Pratt in late vote counts to secure a spot in the November runoff against Bass. This comes alongside prior reporting on thousands of homeless individuals registered at shelters with far fewer beds, including one linked to Raman that received substantial taxpayer funding.
A Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has even published guides encouraging ballot harvesting, a legal but contentious practice in California that involves collecting and delivering completed mail ballots.
These revelations echo a recent federal case where a woman pleaded guilty to paying Skid Row residents to register to vote as part of a signature-gathering scheme. Federal prosecutors have confirmed multiple election fraud investigations in the area. Yet the response from Bass and Raman’s camps has been silence in the face of direct outreach.
Los Angeles has poured billions into addressing homelessness under leaders like Bass, with visible results that are, at best, underwhelming. Encampments persist, crime festers, and the human cost mounts. The irony is inescapable: officials who decry systemic inequities stand accused of exploiting the very inequities they helped perpetuate. Why target a population with limited resources, questionable comprehension of the process, and high vulnerability if not to manufacture electoral advantages?
Advisor Bullion Numismatics Our constitutional republic depends on the consent of the governed, expressed through free and fair elections. When those elections become transactions—cash for ballots—the foundation cracks. The Founding Fathers warned against factions that would subvert the public good for private gain. James Madison in Federalist No. 10 cautioned against the mischief of factions, yet here we see modern equivalents preying on the weakest links in society.
Don Garza, a disabled military veteran living on Skid Row since 1999, captured the exhaustion felt by many: nonprofit organizations and political actors treat residents as votes to be claimed rather than souls to be served. “We are tired of it,” he said. “We don’t want people coming in and deciding elections and taking advantage of us.”
“Every one of them thinks they have claim to our voice. They think they speak for us.”
As California’s mail-in voting and ballot collection rules invite scrutiny, these Skid Row accounts demand a thorough federal investigation. The Department of Justice has received the videos. Americans watching this spectacle should pray for truth to prevail and for leaders who fear God more than they chase power.
“And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.” (Isaiah 45:3)
What is hidden in LA’s electoral shadows will one day come to light, exposing whether justice or expediency ruled the day.
The people of Los Angeles deserve better than a political machine that views the homeless not as neighbors in need but as reliable vote multipliers. True compassion restores dignity. It does not traffic in desperation. Until leaders prioritize accountability over optics, Skid Row will remain both symptom and casualty of a deeper civic failure.
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And nothing will be done. This is engineered to irritate and induce despair in conservatives. It’s working.
Somebody ping Kristen Welker. She’s big on evidence of vote fraud.
” they were paid small sums of cash to cast ballots for Mayor Karen Bass \AND\ Councilwoman Nithya Raman “
Interesting
Of course they were. The majority of voters are perfectly comfortable living with corruption, crime, filth, decay and chaos. All the majority needs to hear is “Trump” or “MAGA” and the Pavlovian response is to vote for whichever incompetent fool or crook has the D next to their name. Its time for any sane person to leave LA.
“Well, sure. You found ... what? Three people? Ten people? Not enough to make a difference, so we’ll just say there is no evidence, cleanest election ever, and close out all official investigations.”
$5 for a vote. Probably not enough for a cup of coffee in LA, but I guess you could vote multiple times there, maybe enough for the next fix. My vote is not for sale.
They turn on who paid them and the people who did the payout in turn fink on where that money came from. It is the same technique law enforcement uses to bust up organized crime and the criminals themselves will use terror and intimidation to keep mouths shut tight.
The Democrat party is by far the most powerful criminal organization on Earth. They are only rivaled by Communist China.
if its so rabidly lefty, why do they need all the fake votes?
If they end up with Raman(Mandami in a dress) and do nothing then they deserve it
California used to be a reliably Republican state..................
She’s Only big on STUPID,
There is no fraud if no laws are broken.
Democrats are buying votes? Shocking!
The Democrats have essentially legalized vote fraud in California, so one has to ask is paying a homeless person to vote illegal in the once-upon-a-time Golden State?
yeah, I had the same thoughts. GOP needs to buy crates of MD 20/20 and outbid the Dems lol
Spencer Pratt was not wrong when he pointed out he “lost” by 43,000 votes - the same number of homeless in encampments around Los Angeles.
Enough votes were found to call the election, Pratt in 3rd place. The honest election was what came in on Election Night with Pratt in 2nd place and Raman crying her eyes out b/c she’d place 3rd.
Unfortunately.
The difference in rigging and fraud: California (and other “Blue” states) has legalized rigging its elections, thus it can be argued it’s not “fraud” ‘cause it’s legal. California has become what Victor Davis Hansen predicted: a feudal society; a very wealthy “aristocracy” (ruling class) in total control of the government (an elections), thus immune from the results of their own policies and the very poor, dependent on government welfare. With a hollowed out middle class that loses ground every year.
Karl Marx hated the middle class (bourgeoisie) because they are independent and thus hard to rule. The only middle class in socialist regimes are the bureaucrats that enforce the policies of the ruling class. California is well on its way. The Pacific Palisades (an upper middle class area) is still in ashes 18 months later, and the ruling class show no motivation to do anything to help rebuild the area.
“ballot harvesting, a legal but contentious practice in California that involves collecting and delivering completed mail ballots.”
Does the author even know the topic being covered?
Ballot harvesting is the ILLEGAL collection of mail-in ballots and the ILLEGAL voting of those ballots, not by the registered addressee, but by the voter harvester on behalf of the dead, minors 16-17, non-citizens, movers, vacant houses, vacant lots that are registered.
Whoever controls the language wins the debate.
If it is legal, what is the problem?
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