Your vote is for sale on the streets of California — and what I found out about life on Skid Row

On Monday, the US Department of Justice announced that Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, of Marina Del Rey had been indicted on federal charges for illegally paying homeless people to register to vote.

She now faces up to five years in prison for federal election crimes.

In addition to registering homeless people to vote, Brown allegedly had those same people sign California election petitions using fake names and fake addresses. She allegedly supplied them with the names and addresses of real California voters, to write in.

There’s no mistaking it. Election fraud on Skid Row. Your vote is actively on sale on the streets of LA.

Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, is seen walking into court Monday.

To expose this, all it took was a disguise and those “pesky” hidden cameras. Our investigation did not take place in he dead of night, but rather in broad daylight, on almost every corner of Skid Row.

One might ask why people would do this. At the end of the day, it is all about money.

And for those who complained online about when and where the arrests for voter fraud would happen — here they are. Today marked the first step for real accountability for the American people. 

In Skid Row, I was personally on the ground in disguise while wearing an old LA Raiders hat and a Mother Mary hoodie with ripped up pants. Being there showed me how far our society has fallen.

Needles, dead animals, rotten food, and people sleeping on the streets have made parts of LA look like a city that has completely succumbed to hell.

On top of all of that, criminals were taking advantage of the homeless by selling votes for a few dollars. Reports over the years had claimed that election fraud is going on in California. But we showed
— for the first time ever — not circumstantial evidence, but real, live exchanges of cash for votes. Darkness, overshadowing democracy, for a mere $2 a voter.

Our investigation also proved the importance of undercover work and hidden cameras. Now more than ever, we need journalists who will go where some cannot go; who film what others are not willing to film; and who expose what some chose not to expose. 

Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, also known as “Anika,” took a plea deal for one felony count of paying another person to register to vote in a federal election, prosecutors announced Monday.

What was most fascinating was seeing the sale of votes happening right in front of LAPD beat cops overlooking the corners of Skid Row. They seemed handcuffed themselves. Crime were taking place right in front of them, but they were unable to reach out and take action.

That showed the real problem happening in the city of LA: Weakness. Weak accountability and leadership lead to growing dysfunction. The city of Los Angeles is not the city of angels anymore, but rather the city of fiends.

California, your vote is for sale. Whether it is on the streets of Skid Row, San Francisco, or San Diego. These election schemes have been occurring for way too long, and it is time to shape up. The DOJ’s indictment was the first step. There are many more steps that must be taken to provide the accountability that so many Americans voted for and want. 

Citizen Journalists such as Cam Higby, Savannah Hernandez, Jonathan Choe, Jorge Ventura, Nick Shirley, and Anthony Rubin have been the key to exposing election fraud in the Golden State. Real shoe-leather journalism.

As I have stated so many times before, in order to do this type of journalism you cannot be for sale: “In this job, if your price is not your life, then you are for sale.”

https://nypost.com/2026/05/18/opinion/your-vote-is-for-sale-on-the-streets-of-california/