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Voter fraud is real — and voter ID is the answer

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Voter fraud is real — and it is an urgent problem, for which only voter ID is the answer.

The proof arrived in a courtroom in Orange County on Monday, as Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of paying another person to register to vote.

Armstrong allegedly went to Skid Row and paid the most desperate homeless people in the city to register to vote, then obtained their signatures on ballot petitions. She also allegedly used the names and addresses of real voters when signing them up.

She said that she was being paid by higher-ups. We don’t yet know who they are, and how high up the scheme went. We also don’t know how broad the problem is.

But we know it exists.

Thanks in part to the work of citizen journalists, who have caught people in the act, we know how easy it is to pay people to........

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