Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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San Francisco videographer JJ Smith filmed people getting paid $5 to sign ballot petitions inside a homeless encampment. The next day he found a different team running the same operation outside his building. Around the corner, another team. Simultaneously.

In this episode we sit down with JJ, James A. Kus, Fresno County Clerk and Registrar of Voters, and Susan Shelley, editorial writer at the Southern California News Group, to examine what is happening on California streets and who is actually responsible when alleged ballot petition fraud occurs.

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