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Mayoral Candidate Charged w/Submitting 8,000 Fake Voter Registration Applications

The worst kept secret in California is that propositions and candidates get on the ballot by handing out money to wranglers who find homeless people on the street who will sign anything. That’s fraud and it’s normal.

But this is something special.

A man who tried to run for mayor in Hawthorne is among two people charged in a voter fraud case in which thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications were allegedly submitted on behalf of homeless people, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro — also known as Mark Anthony Gonsalves — was set to be arraigned Tuesday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on 18 felony counts of voter fraud, 11 felony counts of procuring a false or forged instrument, two felony counts of perjury and one felony count of conspiracy to commit voter fraud, along with nine misdemeanor counts of interference with a prompt transfer of a completed affidavit, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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