Did Skid Row voters help skew LA election for mayor?

It’s another flashing red warning sign that California’s voting system is broken.As the California Post has reported, lefty groups appear to have used lax election rules to exploit the city’s homeless population for crass electoral gain.A Post investigation found nearly 1,200 people registered to vote at a homeless shelter with 132 beds, and another 185 at a drop-in center with zero beds.In fact, records show a whopping 7,600 voters tied to homeless shelters and service providers.This raises a host of questions, including: Where did the ballots for these voters go? Did the voters ever see them? If so, did they complete and return them of their volition? And if not, who did?The public deserves to know whether homeless people were truly given the right to vote, or were victims of a ballot harvesting operation run by socialists intent on expanding their own power in LA.California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story It is possible that the beneficiary was City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who advanced to the mayoral runoff on a late-ballot surge, perhaps based in part on this very type of chicanery.Raman has longstanding ties to an LA homeless-industrial complex that sends a torrent of taxpayer money to nonprofits, incentivizing them to perpetuate rather than reduce homelessness.In effect, a socialist faction of the city has amplified its own power by building a welfare state that shifts taxpayer money to nonprofits, entrenches homelessness and dependency on City Hall’s “free” needles, laundry, et al, and maintains a captive voting bloc for far-left candidates to tap into each election.That’s an abuse of power, and LA residents, voters and taxpayers should be appalled.It’s the very type of shady-if-not-illegal conduct that destroys public confidence ...