Exclusive | Florida Sen. Rick Scott urges DOJ probe amid California voter fraud scandal
Florida Sen. Rick Scott is urging the Justice Department to dig deeper into a California voter fraud case involving a woman who admitted paying homeless people on Los Angeles’ Skid Row to register to vote.In a letter sent Friday to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K.Dhillon obtained exclusively by The California Post, Scott praised federal prosecutors for pursuing charges against Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong and called for a broader examination of potential election-related misconduct.“Americans expect and deserve elections that are free, fair, transparent, and efficient.
California clearly does not want to meet those standards,” Scott told The California Post.“Between troubling reports of fraudulent ballots being submitted, people paying homeless people to cast ballots, and delays in ballot counting, everyone paying attention is troubled by the process.
The American people deserve answers.”The letter comes weeks after Armstrong, a Marina del Rey woman also known as “Anika,” agreed to plead guilty to a federal felony charge of paying another person to register to vote in a federal election.“The American people deserve to know the full scope of what occurred, who was involved, and whether similar conduct has taken place elsewhere.Election integrity is too important to permit anything less than a thorough accounting of the facts,” the letter stated.Federal prosecutors allege Armstrong spent years working as a paid petition circulator and expanded her operation by paying individuals — including homeless residents living on Skid Row — to complete voter registration forms and sign petitions.Armstrong offered money, cigarettes and other items in exchange for voter registrations and petition signatures.
Prosecutors further allege that on some occasions she provided homeless individuals with her own former Los Angeles address to place on registration forms, creating the possibility that mail ballots coul...