The stench of Skid Row wafts through Los Angeles's increasingly suspicious vote count

 Well, they did it.

A slew of late-harvested Skid Row votes, all coming in nearly a week after the mayoral election, has pushed DSA member Nithya Raman, a former homeless NGO satrap, above Palisades fire victim Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles's top-two primary. She had tearfully conceded the race on the day after the election.

So assuming the other 300,000 ballots (no one knows for sure the final total) are counted the same way, then come November, Los Angeles can choose between Karen Bass, the mayor who let two large city neighborhoods burn and still won't allow rebuilding, or Raman, the champion of the bums.

The Skid Row revelations are worth looking at because there have already been some very skeevy revelations about voter fraud in those quarters, first exposed on film in Los Angeles by investigative journalist James O'Keefe:

And when lawmen looked into it, they hit paydirt.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs:

Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, of Marina del Rey, California, 64, also known as “Anika,” is charged with one felony count of paying another person to register to vote, a federal charge that carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.

Armstrong has agreed to plead guilty to the charge and is scheduled to make her initial appearance this morning in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana. She is expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks.

According to her plea agreement, for approximately 20 years, Armstrong periodically worked as a “petition circulator.” In that role, she was paid by individuals and entities – known as “coordinators” – to collect voter signatures on official petitions that qualify initiatives, referendums, and recalls for California state ballots. Armstrong drove around the Los Angeles area to find registered voters to sign the petitions.

 After gathering enough signatures, Armstrong returned the petitions to her coordinators, who then paid her a set amount for each registered voter’s signature. The amount she was paid varied depending on the specific ballot initiative. Because her coordinators only paid for signatures attributable to registered voters, Armstrong endeavored to ensure the people who signed her petitions were registered voters.

Armstrong occasionally solicited petitioned signatures in Skid Row, an area of downtown Los Angeles notorious for its homelessness problem. Skid Row was a convenient place for Armstrong to collect signatures because of its high concentration of people in a relatively small area who were willing to sign petitions in exchange for payment. Armstrong regularly paid and offered to pay individuals cash, usually in amounts between $2 and $3, to induce them to sign her petitions

Many of Skid Row’s homeless population were not registered to vote. To ensure she maximized her pay from her coordinators, starting no later than 2025, Armstrong began offering payment to individuals not only to sign her petitions, but also to complete a voter registration form. Before going to Skid Row, Armstrong gathered a stack of voter registration forms from the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters.

 It seems likely that she was part of a bigger plot, operating over 20 years, knowing how to bring in the ballots, enough to get herself a home in upper middle class Marina del Rey perhaps. What she is about to do time for is likely only a fraction of what she did and the tip of the iceberg of what she knows.

Los Angeles has a reported 43,000 homeless individuals who are nearly all drug addicts, many of whom were bused in by other states shipping them out. Free drugs, free syringes, free needles are known to have been distributed by city-financed NGOs among them.

O'Keefe exposed NGO workers handing out drugs for ballot signatures and voter registrations, too.

Lawmen hit paydirt there, too. A few days after Brown was busted, this NGO worker in Los Angeles, living in upper-middle-class Culver City, also was arrested, DOJ announced:

LOS ANGELES – A Culver City man who worked for a nonprofit organization that distributes syringes to homeless drug users in Los Angeles and elsewhere was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with possessing fentanyl when police pulled him over while he drove a BMW near MacArthur Park earlier this month.

Christopher Barret Johnson, 42, is charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. 

Johnson once worked for People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), a nonprofit that offers services to homeless people including street outreach, interim and permanent housing. PATH also serves as a vendor distributing syringes, including in MacArthur Park, a sector of the city characterized by high rates of poverty with many of its residents and visitors being drug users.

So now we see this weird stuff, 43,000 homeless, and 43,000 late-arriving Skid Row ballots suddenly putting Raman over the top for the November election, shutting Spencer out.

And she wasn't even popular, let alone very well known to voters. Her deer-in-the-headlight performance on debate night signaled to many that she wasn't ready for prime time:

Observers have noted that while Democrats tend to vote by mail late, the strange phenomenon of only voting for Raman, who was grossly behind on election night, and not Bass, whose vote tally was, like Spencer's flat, suggested some abnormal activity -- after all, if Democrats like to vote late, why didn't they split their votes between Bass and Raman? Somehow, they only went for Raman until her numbers could put her above Spencer:

Another oddity is that Los Angeles has lost population as residents flee to other states -- but the vote tally, is higher:

This observer points out that the consistency of the balloting for Raman suggests that someone is using the bums' names and registrations, however skeevy those many be, and actually controlling how those ballots are filled out. Bums don't care about politics, after all, they are interested in their next drug.

So many indicators of a manipulated and fraudulent outcome.

It's worth noting that Los Angeles has been seeing these oddities for a long time:

The New York Post found another example, too.

What it indicates is that homeless NGOs have at least as much power as the SEIU to swing elections, using their 'clients' as fodder for vote harvests. That would make bums, and the people who control the bums through their NGOs, the most powerful constituency in Los Angeles, the one that can swing elections. That is as disgusting a picture as any seen in election-fraud filled Venezuela or any socialist hellhole with phony votes. California's Gov. Gavin Newsom is now resisting any effort to audit the voter rolls, which have been filled with clearly fake voters.

Obviously, he's got something at stake here in this sorry state of affairs, where he and his party benefit. Just don't call it 'democracy.'

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/the_stench_of_skid_row_wafts_through_los_angeles_s_increasingly_suspicious_vote_count.html

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/spencer-pratt-calls-glaring-coincidence-nithya-ramans-43000/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/just-trump-goes-rigged-california-election-not-possible/