California Voter Fraud Scheme Involved Giving Cash for Signatures: Officials

Voters cast their ballot in the midterm election at the Brooklyn Museum polling station in New York City on November 6, 2018. - Americans started voting Tuesday in critical midterm elections that mark the first major voter test of Donald Trump's presidency, with control of Congress at stake. ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images

Nine people were charged in a “large-scale voter fraud scheme” in Los Angeles County on Nov. 20.

The group was hit with a dozen felony counts for allegedly offering money and cigarettes to homeless people in exchange for false and forged signatures on ballot petitions and voter registration forms.