A homeless woman on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles said that someone gave her a ballot, and paid her $2 to vote for Karen Bass saying that it happens all the time with the homeless population there.
“They told you to vote for Karen?”
“Yeah, I had to sign a little thing.”
“And how much do they pay you?”
“Just like $2.”
“$2 to sign off on a thing to vote for her?”
“Yeah. All right, so they do this for everybody out here?”
“Yeah, they come out here all the time.”
Mayor Karen Bass led with about 34% of the vote and advanced to a November runoff easily - despite a masterful campaign put on by Spencer Pratt.
Pratt was just bumped from second place by a woman (Nithya Raman) who was so far behind on election night that she cried, gave a concession speech and came to terms with her failure.
She somehow made an impossible come back to take the 2nd spot from Pratt.
Key facts from the video and evidence:
The woman explicitly linked the $2 payment and the instruction to “sign a little thing” to voting for Karen Bass.
She stated that the people involved “come out here all the time” specifically to secure votes for Democrats.
The video connects the claim to documented prior activity on Skid Row involving paid petition circulators and voter registration efforts.
James O’Keefe conducted undercover operations on Skid Row in March.
Hidden-camera footage recorded 28 instances of petitioners offering cash ($2, $5, $7–$10 per signature), cigarettes, and marijuana to homeless people in exchange for signing ballot petitions and voter registration forms.
Petitioners instructed people to use fake addresses, such as “Pinocchio Lane,” and did not understand what they were signing.
Taxpayer-funded NGOs, including the Weingart Center, were recorded directing homeless people to these petitioners and coaching them on how to claim ignorance if questioned.
This is against the law.
On May 18, federal prosecutors charged Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, with a felony count of paying another person to register to vote.
She targeted homeless people on Skid Row, paying $2 to $3 plus cigarettes or phone cards for signatures on petitions and registrations. Armstrong pleaded guilty.
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The swing of about 43,000 voters (since Tuesday) that pushed Raman past Pratt just so happens to be roughly the same amount of homeless people in the city - which was 43,695 in 2025.
Late batches of mail-in ballots heavily favored Ramam.
One reported batch gave Raman 24,000 to Pratt's 0 - with election officials and liberal media outlets saying it was 'a glitch in reporting'
One reported batch gave Raman 23,514 votes to Pratt’s 10,336.
Other updates showed Raman closing gaps of 21,000 votes or more and ultimately overtaking Pratt.
Mail-ins arriving before Election Day:

Bass: 38.1%

Pratt: 27.9%

Raman: 20%
Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:

Raman: 37% (+17% surge)

Bass: 34.9% (-3% drop)

Pratt: 19% (-9% drop)
(updated from original story)
Current standings (as of Tuesday night)
Karen Bass: 34.3%
Nithya Raman: 29.0%
Spencer Pratt: 25.8%
Raman leads by 3,100 votes, with an estimated 146,000 ballots still outstanding on Sunday - she now leads by more than 21,000 votes, and roughly 146,000–148,000 ballots remain outstanding
**how are those numbers possible? California’s counting process involves ongoing arrivals and processing adjustments - so basically ballots just keep on coming in.
Calls are coming in for Bill Essayli to audit, investigate, arrest and jail the politicians involved in rigging California elections.
Democrats have controlled California for more than 50 years, with many critics saying once Democrats take control, they'll never give it up, by any means possible, which they say we are witnessing in California in both the mayoral and gubernatorial races.