As a state investigation into the matter continues, more individuals have been caught on film paying people $5 to forge signatures on petitions for various counter-measures to the Billionaire Tax initiative, and they’re now wearing ski masks and taking swings at reporters.
As SFist reported last month, local content creator JJ Smith alerted state officials to alleged fraudulent activity involving individuals paying people on Sixth Street in SF’s South of Market neighborhood to sign petitions using other people’s voter registration information. Smith said the signature-collectors didn’t explain to people what petitions they were signing, which were reportedly for pro-billionaire measures countering the Billionaire Tax initiative ahead of the 2026 California elections.
The signature-collectors have now been reported in SF’s Tenderloin District, and similar activity was reportedly spotted in Los Angeles’s “Skid Row.”…