California Circulator Pleads Guilty in Skid Row Voter-Registration Case
A 64-year-old petition circulator admitted paying Skid Row homeless $2–$3 to register and sometimes used her former address; she will plead guilty to one federal felony, prosecutors said.
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Overview
Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of paying another person to register to vote, federal prosecutors announced on May 18.
Prosecutors say Armstrong paid Skid Row homeless $2 to $3 to register and sometimes gave them her former Los Angeles address, raising the possibility that mail ballots were sent there, according to her plea agreement.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said false registrations undermine Americans' faith in elections, and prosecutors said the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California led the investigation.
Armstrong worked approximately 20 years as a paid petition circulator, faces a statutory maximum of five years in prison, and investigators cited video showing her handing cash at least 28 times, prosecutors said.
Armstrong made an initial court appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana and is expected to plead guilty in coming weeks; prosecutors noted a primary election is scheduled for June 2.
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