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发帖数: 24733 | 1 Prosecutors say homeless offered cash, cigarettes in exchange for hundreds
of signatures
An alleged voter fraud scheme in which Skid Row’s homeless were being
offered money and cigarettes in exchange for “false and forged signatures”
on ballot petitions and registration documents has been uncovered in Los
Angeles, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office says it is charging nine
people in total with felony counts related to the offenses, which are said
to have happened during the 2016 and 2018 election cycles.
“The defendants are accused of engaging in the solicitation of hundreds of
false and/or forged signatures on state ballot petitions and voter
registration forms by allegedly offering homeless people $1 and/or
cigarettes for their participation,” a statement from the attorney’s
office reads.
The charges, it added, include “circulating a petition with false names;
use of false names on a petition; voter fraud, registering a fictitious
person; and voter fraud, registering a nonexistent person.”
Some of the nine charged were identified as Kirkland Kauzava Washington,
Harold Bennett, and Louis Thomas Wise – who are each facing eight counts.
The others: Richard Howard, Rose Makeda Sweeney, Christopher Joseph Williams
, Jakara Fati Mardis, Norman Hall and Nickey Demelvin Huntley, are each
facing four counts. Their ages range from 28 to 62, and each could end up
having to serve a maximum of around five to six years in prison if convicted.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/skid-row-voter-fraud-prosecutors-say-homeless-offered-cash-cigarettes-in-exchange-for-hundreds-of-signatures | O**l
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