Man arrested for allegedly paying people on L.A.'s Skid Row to sign ballot petitions using stolen voter IDs

Boron woman among 3 in voter fraud case

LOS ANGELES — A 47-year-old man arrested Thursday was among three defendants, including a Boron woman, facing federal charges for allegedly paying people on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles to sign petitions using stolen identities of registered voters to…

WORLD NEWS: Stolen Voter IDs Fuel Skid Row Scam

Photo: mikeledray / Shutterstock Ballot petition systems are only as sound as the signatures that qualify measures for the ballot; when identity theft is used to manufacture those signatures at scale, it exploits a structural weak point that verification systems tend to catch late, if at all. The Short Version Federal prosecutors allege a Skid Row scheme used stolen identities of registered voters to forge ballot-initiative petition signatures, …

Man arrested for allegedly paying people on L.A.'s Skid Row to sign ballot petitions using stolen voter IDs

A Victorville man was arrested on a federal indictment after he allegedly paid people on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles to sign ballot petitions using stolen voter IDs. Forty-seven-year-old James “Lord” Brass of Victorville was arrested Thursday morning on a two-count federal indictment charging him and two other suspects with using stolen voter IDs [...]

Skid row scam: Fraudsters used homeless to pose as valid voters for California referendum drive

Federal prosecutors have charged three California residents for allegedly scamming the state's referendum system by paying homeless people to pose as other voters, then sign petitions to try to get measures on the ballot.