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Nine Charged in Alleged Voter Fraud Scheme on Skid Row

Posted by Contributing Editor on November 20, 2018 in Crime | Leave a response
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Nine people are facing felony charges for allegedly offering homeless people on Skid Row money and cigarettes in exchange for false and forged signatures on ballot petitions and voter registration forms, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Kirkland Kauzava Washington, 38, Richard Howard, 62, Rose Makeda Sweeney, 42, Christopher Joseph Williams, 59, and Norman Hall, 61, are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.

Also charged in the alleged voter fraud scheme are Harold Bennett, 53, Louis Thomas Wise, 36, Jakara Fati Mardis, 35, and Nickey Demelvin Huntley, 44.

The charges include voter fraud, circulating a petition with false names, use of false names on a petition and registering a fictitious person, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

The defendants allegedly engaged in the solicitation of hundreds of false and/or forged signatures on state ballot petitions and voter registration forms by offering homeless people $1 and/or cigarettes for their participation during the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, prosecutors said.

It was not immediately clear which ballot petitions the alleged scheme involved.

Washington, Bennett and Wise are each charged with eight counts and could face up to six years and four months in state prison if convicted as charged, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

The other five defendants are charged with four counts each and would face a maximum of four years and eight months behind bars if convicted.

The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.

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