One of nine people indicted last year 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 pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Norman Hall, 62, was immediately sentenced to one year in county jail, 100 hours of community service and three years probation following his plea to one count of circulating a petition with false names, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Hall was indicted last June along with eight other people, who are awaiting trial on charges including use of false names on a petition and voter fraud.
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.