Los Angeles voter rolls show 7,600 registrations tied to homeless shelters across the city.
Investigators started pulling records – and one shelter's numbers didn't add up.
What they found inside that address is something a city councilwoman is hoping you never see.
California Election Fraud Investigators Found 7,600 Homeless Voter Registrations Across LA
Democrat Socialist Nithya Raman finished election night in third place in Los Angeles’ Mayoral Election – then late-arriving mail ballots broke so heavily in her favor that she overtook Spencer Pratt and claimed the second runoff slot, raising immediate questions about where those votes came from.
The California Post reviewed public records and found 7,600 registered voters tied to homeless shelters and service providers across Los Angeles.
The single largest cluster was at the Midnight Mission in Skid Row – 1,160 registered voters packed onto the rolls at an address with beds for only 84 men and 36 women.
But the address that puts Raman directly in the crosshairs is St. Joseph Center in Venice.
That drop-in center carried 185 registered voters at its address – and it has no overnight accommodations at all.
Raman personally awarded St. Joseph Center a $600,000 taxpayer-funded grant while she chaired the City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee.
When the California Post contacted her campaign and the center, neither responded.
The photograph of Raman presenting the check was quietly pulled from St. Joseph Center's website after reporters started asking questions.
The Dirty Voter Rolls Pattern California Has Refused to Fix for a Decade
This is not the first time someone has worked LA's streets for votes.
In 2018, Los Angeles prosecutors charged nine people with offering homeless individuals cash and cigarettes in exchange for forged signatures on ballot petitions and voter registration forms – a scheme that ran through the 2016 and 2018 election cycles.
A homeless man on Skid Row told the California Post he had previously been paid to help sign up voters, and that cigarettes were offered to some people during registration drives in the area.
Then, just three weeks ago, Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong – a 64-year-old Marina del Rey woman – agreed to plead guilty to a federal felony for paying homeless people $2 to $3 per voter registration.
She ran that operation for roughly 20 years.
O'Keefe Media Group captured it on undercover footage.
Armstrong registered people without permanent addresses by listing her own former addresses – meaning California's mail-ballot system sent multiple active ballots straight to those locations.
Harmeet Dhillon put it directly: "False registrations undermine Americans' faith in elections – even more so when payoffs are involved."
Ballot Harvesting and No Voter ID Make California the Easiest State to Commit Election Fraud
No voter ID, no restrictions on who collects your ballot, and rolls stuffed with people who don't live anywhere – that's not a broken system.
That's the system working exactly as Sacramento designed it.
The state lets first-time voters register using a gym membership card, a prescription drug label, or an insurance card – the same insurance California hands out to illegal aliens.
California legalizes ballot harvesting with almost no restrictions, letting any third party collect and return ballots with no cap on volume and no meaningful oversight of who actually filled them out.
The DOJ has been demanding access to California's statewide voter registration database for over a year to check compliance with federal election law.
California refused, claiming state privacy laws block federal review – an argument that U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli says doesn't hold up legally and is currently being litigated before the Ninth Circuit.
Essayli said: "Dirty voter rolls, with no voter ID and unregulated ballot harvesting is an open invitation for bad actors to commit fraud."
California voters will decide on a voter ID initiative in November.
The question is whether the same system being investigated right now will be the one counting those ballots.
Sources:
- Jamie Paige, "Bombshell photo unveils damning Nithya Raman link with homeless voters," California Post, June 9, 2026.
- Ward Clark, "Dirty Voter Rolls Exposed: Homeless Registered at Fake LA Shelter Addresses," RedState, June 9, 2026.
- "California Woman Federally Charged with Paying Individuals, Including Homeless People on L.A.'s Skid Row, to Register to Vote," US Department of Justice, May 2026.
- "4 LA Men Admit to Skid Row Voter Fraud Scheme," Fox News.
- Hans von Spakovsky, "Vote Harvesting a Recipe for Coercion and Election Fraud," Heritage Foundation.
- Jeff Crouere, "The Invasion of the Ballot Snatchers," Townhall, June 8, 2026.
