Los Angeles Prosecutors Charge 9 in Large-Scale Voter Fraud Scheme

Homeless woman Caroline Francis places a platter of food for her neighbor on the street near the Los Angeles Mission on Dec. 22, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Frederic Brown/AFP/Getty Images

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged nine people with more than a dozen felonies on Nov. 20, for allegedly offering cigarettes and cash to homeless people in exchange for forged signatures on voter-registration forms and ballot petitions.

The defendants allegedly solicited hundreds of false or forged signatures during the 2016 and 2018 election cycles by offering $1 and/or cigarettes to homeless people in the Skid Row neighborhood, according to a press release.