SKID ROW SURGE: Bombshell Photo Unveils Damning Nithya Raman Link with Homeless Voters

Questions surrounding voter registration practices in Los Angeles’ homeless community are now drawing the attention of federal investigators after public records revealed thousands of voters tied to shelters and service providers across the city — including facilities with limited or nonexistent housing capacity.

The controversy exploded Monday night as mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt was eliminated from the race against Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, while new scrutiny emerged over organizations connected to the city’s homeless services network.

According to a New York Post review of voting records, roughly 7,600 registered voters were tied to homeless shelters, supportive housing developments, and service providers throughout Los Angeles.

One of the most striking examples involved the St. Joseph Center in Venice, a drop-in facility that reportedly had 185 registered voters connected to its address despite not offering overnight accommodations. The center also received $600,000 in taxpayer funding from the city’s homeless and housing committee while Raman served as chair.

Following inquiries into the relationship between Raman and the organization, a photograph reportedly showing the councilmember presenting a check to the center was removed from its website.

The revelations have prompted U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli to announce he is reviewing the allegations.

“We will follow the evidence,” Essayli said, according to the report, signaling that federal authorities will examine whether any election or fraud laws were violated.

The largest concentration of registrations appeared tied to the Midnight Mission in Skid Row, where records allegedly showed 1,160 registered voters connected to the address. The shelter’s website, however, lists accommodations for only 84 men and 36 women.

Several homeless individuals interviewed described years of voter registration activity in Skid Row and Venice.

Martin Rowe, a homeless man living in Venice, said he was approached during an outreach effort outside a Ralphs grocery store and encouraged to register.

“They asked you all the questions,” Rowe said. “They gave you a paper.”

Another man living on Skid Row, identified only as Norman, claimed voter registration campaigns have long targeted homeless populations in the area.

“It was a big push to get a certain area of town registered to voting,” Norman said. “They are just doing it because we’re here. You see people sitting around. It’s just a few lines to sign and you’re a registered voter.”

Norman also alleged cigarettes had been offered during some registration efforts and claimed he had once been paid to help sign up voters. The allegations could not be independently verified, and no evidence was presented directly tying the activity to any specific political campaign or organization.

Still, the allegations echo a previously reported case involving a Marina Del Rey woman who agreed to plead guilty after prosecutors accused her of paying homeless individuals on Skid Row as part of a long-running illegal petition and voter registration operation.

Outside the Midnight Mission this week, another homeless resident told reporters he did not remember registering to vote and could not identify candidates in the current mayoral race.

The Post also reported that staff at the shelter declined to answer questions regarding how ballots are handled when mailed to the facility.

Public records further showed several supportive housing developments and affordable housing projects adding large numbers of new registered voters in the final weeks before the registration deadline, with some locations reportedly seeing increases approaching 200 voters.

The growing controversy now threatens to intensify already fierce political debates in California surrounding homelessness, election integrity, and taxpayer-funded social programs.

More over at The New York Post:

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