Source: Fox News
Summary
California woman Anika Brenda Lee Armstrong, 64, was charged with paying people, including homeless individuals on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, to register to vote while working as a paid ballot-petition signature collector. Armstrong, a petition circulator for 20 years, would pay people $2-$3 to register and sometimes provided her former address for them to use. She was charged with one felony count and faces up to five years in federal prison. Armstrong agreed to plead guilty and made her initial court appearance on Monday.
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As expected, the matter has reached another stage.
Anika Brenda Lee Armstrong’s 20-year career as a petition circulator came to an end with a felony charge. She paid people to register to vote, often using her former address. The process has entered a familiar phase: a guilty plea and a court appearance. The sequence is familiar: a charge, a plea, a possible sentence. The players are familiar too: a defendant, a prosecutor, a judge. The scene is set: a courtroom, a podium, a microphone.
And in the background, a familiar refrain: the importance of fair and free elections.
Author: Evan Null
