tonight, the l.a.p.d. has uncod a large scale voter scam. good evening, shannon. this is all part of a crackdown on voter fraud that the los angeles police department began a long prior to the midterm elections. investigators discovered that the home homeless people on l.a l.a. s infamous skid row were given a dollar or cigarettes in exchange for paul signatures on ballot petitions. in the words of l.a.p.d. officer, they paid individuals to assign names. that s an assault on our democracy. the signatures were most commonly used to get certain proposition onto election ballots. it s not clear whether the number of signatures falsely gathered were enough to make the difference in any one proposition it onto the ballot in this year s midterms. under california law, any