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FBI agents descend on Skid Row in massive voter fraud probe after stunning claims of election bribery
NY Post ^ | June 18, 2026 | Ben Chapman

Posted on 06/18/2026 9:10:27 PM PDT by Red Badger

The FBI is now investigating voter fraud in Los Angeles.

Federal agents descended on the streets of Skid Row in downtown LA Thursday following allegations that the homeless had been paid to vote in the June 2 primary.

About 20 agents swooped in on the notoriously blighted area after homeless people staying there claimed they’d been bribed with cash to sign multiple registration forms, forge signatures, and fill out voter information for the mayoral and gubernatorial primaries.

The California Post looked on as plainclothes agents questioned Skid Row residents, asking them if they were paid to vote or were aware of others who were approached with the offer.

The Department of Justice would only confirm that federal agents were investigating a ”criminal matter,” as officers conducted up to 50 interviews.

It marked a major escalation in the feds’ probe of voting in Los Angeles, with FBI Director Kash Patel applauding the action.

“Securing our elections is of the upmost priority for this FBI!” he wrote on X. “If you mess with our elections we will find you!”

The action came a day after the LA City Council voted to move forward with a controversial proposal introduced by a socialist councilmembers to allow immigrant noncitizens vote in city and school board elections.

“It just does not make sense to me that someone who moves to Los Angeles for a temporary job has more of a voice than a parent who has been here for decades raising their children through public schools,” said Democrat Socialists of America-backed Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez.

The FBI probe followed the emergence of shocking videos the week after Election Day of Skid Row residents claiming they were paid to vote for incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bribery; california; cheat; demagogicparty; fraud; gavinnewsom; homelessvoters; karenbass; losangeles; stunning; voterfraud

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1 posted on 06/18/2026 9:10:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Step very carefully. The Kalifornia Krime Kabal (KKK) would love to disappear any or all of the Skid Row residents who might tell the truth. If you come between a democRAT and those precious ballots, don’t be surprised.


2 posted on 06/18/2026 9:17:50 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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About 20 FBI agents descended on the notoriously blighted LA Skid Row area after
homeless there told of being bribed with cash wrt mayoral and gubernatorial primaries:
<><>to sign multiple registration forms,
<><>forge signatures,
<><>and supply voter information.


3 posted on 06/18/2026 9:30:08 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Maybe we can offer witness protection.

I hope they can give names or identifying features for the people who did the bribes. I saw one video where the woman noted that it was not she who had committed the fraud, but the people who bought her “vote”.


4 posted on 06/18/2026 9:44:56 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Red Badger
California has become so dysfunctional and dystopian that even some of the hard core leftists are having second thoughts because nobody wants to live in a hell hole state run by corrupt, incompetent and malicious people who mismanage the state into a horrible and deteriorating quality of life.
5 posted on 06/18/2026 10:38:57 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: Red Badger
after stunning claims of election bribery

Stunning to whom? Not to anyone who has paid attention the last two election cycles. We all knew it was happening.

6 posted on 06/18/2026 11:56:58 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Talarico is Italian for "heretic".)
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“Securing our elections is of the upmost priority for this FBI!

Awkward way to say it. You would think that Patel was endorsing it.

7 posted on 06/19/2026 12:01:10 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Talarico is Italian for "heretic".)
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To: Red Badger

Hooray for the FBI! I don’t say that lightly. When DOJ thru FBI became weaponized during the odoofus and pretty obvious in the creepy gropin’ pedo slowjoe admins, regard for the institution went down the drain.


8 posted on 06/19/2026 12:26:51 AM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: Red Badger

One of these guys was on John Phillips’ radio program and said the vagrants they’re interviewing are essentially useless as potential witnesses because their brains are so fried from drugs.


9 posted on 06/19/2026 12:56:14 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Lizavetta

Believable


10 posted on 06/19/2026 1:04:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: OrangeHoof

“upmost”?


11 posted on 06/19/2026 2:05:31 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Red Badger

While the Feds are there, they should multi-task and remove the druggies’ dogs they use to test their drugs on.

I can’t believe that nothing is being done about this abuse. Spencer Pratt is the only one who mentioned it.


12 posted on 06/19/2026 3:14:36 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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“...the vagrants they’re interviewing are essentially useless as potential witnesses because their brains are so fried from drugs.”

That’s definitely a problem. If this issue were to go to trial(s), the bums’ testimonies would be disregarded.


13 posted on 06/19/2026 3:17:14 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: OrangeHoof

“Awkward way to say it.”

Not to mention WRONG way to say it, as “UPmost” is incorrect usage in this context.


14 posted on 06/19/2026 3:49:11 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: Lizavetta; All

I wonder how they can properly register to vote if they don’t have an address


15 posted on 06/19/2026 4:17:15 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Red Badger

Everyone knew the dems would cheat in the Californias elections.
Why were not more observers employed?


16 posted on 06/19/2026 4:55:35 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Observers? Come on. All this was done before election and anyone can mail in or forge someone else’s ballot.


17 posted on 06/19/2026 5:02:11 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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“”The action came a day after the LA City Council voted to move forward with a controversial proposal introduced by a socialist councilmembers to allow immigrant noncitizens vote in city and school board elections.

“It just does not make sense to me that someone who moves to Los Angeles for a temporary job has more of a voice than a parent who has been here for decades raising their children through public schools,” said Democrat Socialists of America-backed Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez.””

Hey lady - it doesn’t make sense to me either. Is she the council member who proposed such a thing? She wants to give ILLEGALS the right to vote and yet doesn’t want them to have more of a voice than someone who has lived there forever??????


18 posted on 06/19/2026 6:03:00 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: MayflowerMadam

“”“UPmost” is incorrect usage in this context””

Two replies to say it was wrong but none to use it properly - UTMOST!


19 posted on 06/19/2026 6:07:38 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: rdcbn1
California has become so dysfunctional and dystopian that even some of the hard core leftists are having second thoughts because nobody wants to live in a hell hole state run by corrupt, incompetent and malicious people who mismanage the state into a horrible and deteriorating quality of life.

Really? I'll believe it when I see it in elections. Democrats are notorious for voting for the rats that keep screwing them because they are led to believe (by the politicians and media) the rich are the ones being screwed.

20 posted on 06/19/2026 6:40:39 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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