00:00So first I want to talk about voter fraud in the case of United States versus Brown-Armstrong and
00:05we'll have a graphic up there in a moment. The Department of Justice has charged a long-time
00:11California signature gatherer under 52 U.S.C. section 10307 subsection C with one count of
00:20paying another person to register to vote in a federal election. The defendant, Brenda Lee
00:26Brown-Armstrong, has signed a plea agreement and has admitted her guilt on this charge. According to
00:32the plea agreement, and my colleague, Bill Asaley will be able to answer any specific questions about it,
00:39she worked as a petition circulator aka signature gatherer here in Los Angeles for approximately 20
00:44years. And starting in 2025 or so, after Ms. Brown-Armstrong had had a practice of going down
00:53to Skid Row here in Los Angeles, getting homeless people to sign these signature petitions that had
00:58to do with qualifying ballot measures and etc., she would sometimes find that the signatures would be
01:04disqualified because the people signing these signature petitions weren't actually registered
01:09to vote. So to remedy this flaw in her business arrangements, she would then gather starting in
01:152025 stacks of voter registration forms from the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters and then go to
01:21Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles to have homeless people first sign the voter registration forms and
01:28then sign the signature petitions. And she did this in exchange for cash and other items of value
01:35inducements both for the voter registration and for the signature petitions. These were often small
01:40sums of cash, just a few dollars, as well as cigarettes and phone cards. On several occasions when the
01:47homeless person had no formal address to enter on the voter registration form, Ms. Brown-Armstrong
01:53provided them with a fake address, namely her own former address in Los Angeles to write on the voter
02:00registration form. Now the potential charges and sentence rather would include five years in prison,
02:06three years of supervised release, and a fine of up to ten thousand dollars. This case is important because
02:12it shows how easy it is under California law to corrupt the state's voter rolls and thereby corrupt the state
02:19and federal elections administered by the state.
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