Drugs for ballot signatures: James O'Keefe rats them out on Los Angeles's skid row

 by Monica Showalter

So what's new among the dirtbags in Los Angeles and San Francisco?

Citizen investigative journalists James O'Keefe and J.J. Smith have found that the latest offering on Los Angeles's skid row is 'drugs for signatures' on California ballot initiatives, the petitions supposedly signed by the voters to place legislative propositions in front of the voters in what's billed as 'direct democracy.'

And cash. And cigarettes.

CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS FRAUD CASH FOR BALLOTS PART I: Homeless Bribed with Cash & Drugs In Exchange For Registering To Vote & Signing Election Petitions Caught On Tape Undercover On Skid Row In California.

“You can just put Pinocchio Lane.”

California NGOs Encourage Fake… pic.twitter.com/2pkylhgPY9

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 17, 2026

I rewatched James O’Keefe’s Los Angeles investigation of NGOs paying the homeless for signatures

I found something insane

- The NGO this is happening at is Weingart Center
- Weingart Center has gotten hundreds of millions from Gavin Newsom
- These people are REGISTERING THE… pic.twitter.com/ga5xTMOzE4

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 21, 2026

My team, myself & @camhigby were just violently assaulted on Skid Row, my camera crew were punched in the neck and face, we were pepper sprayed, but thankfully just escaped. Some members of our team had to run 10 blocks to get out.

We were in the heart of Skid Row confronting… https://t.co/lCmAAPl1op pic.twitter.com/MAOu1oic2L

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 20, 2026

Earlier this month, J.J. Smith found the same thing going in in the Mission District in San Francisco.

🎥Mar09 2026 1:54pm Location
6th & Mission
These people are paying people $5 dollars to sign a ballot, but as you watch the video their telling them what name to sign (which is someone else name) and what address to write. Seems kind of suspicious to me. Why not sign your own… pic.twitter.com/GIHdLHaHCl

— jj smith (@war24182236) March 9, 2026

Obviously, this puts paid to the 'direct democracy' claims of the defenders of the petitiion system. It also suggests that there may be already-passed petitions -- for tax hikes (the latest is a suicidal tax-the-billionaires measure), government spending, drug legalization, and decriminalization measures, maybe even redistricting, that ought never have been put on the ballot. If bums paid with drugs are the ones signing these peititions, and bums put their numbers over the top, then democracy is just a sham game to fatten the NGOs. which may have some part in this activity, based on O'Keefe's exposure to the Weingart Center, and the fact that obviously, someone was paying these signature gatherers to pay bums, either in money, cigarettes, or drugs, for these signatures, and they got violent when O'Keefe asked too many questions. O'Keefe was zeroing in on the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority as seemingly behind it, given that they came by and filmed O'Keefe, not the petition racket, falsely claiming they were the police. He also named political consulting firms aligned with big corporate interests.

It's enough to make one wonder whether bums should be allowed to vote at all, given their susceptibility to payoffs owing to their addictions, and whether NGOs should be allowed in the petition process owing to their big dollar incentives. O'Keefe says he has filmed 28 instances of cash-for-voter registrations in Los Angeles alone.

The O'Keefe videos, done first dressed as a bum and then as man-on-the-street interviews, with O'Keefe himself clad in a suit on the graffiti-filled streets, are somewhat in-your-face and provocative. The sight of O'Keefe running down the streets as gaggles of angry NGO bum advocates chase him is unintentionally comical.

But the message  delivered was important -- California's election process is shot through with fraud, from dirty voter rolls to drugs-for-signatures. Only the citizen journalists are exposing it, the media is obviously in hock to those who like this kind of system.

California's governor, Gavin Newsom, not surprisingly, is threatening to prosecute O'Keefe, not the cash-for-petitions racket. California's U.S. Attorney, Bill Essayli, is reportedly investigating. If he succeeds in shutting these rackets down, it's one more pillar off the blue state establishment that has rigged and ruled California into a shambles and made a complete joke of its democracy.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/03/drugs_for_ballot_signatures_james_o_keefe_rats_them_out_on_los_angeles_s_skid_row.html