Caught in Broad Daylight: Ballot Initiative Signature-Gatherers in California Paying For Signatures – Backed by Billionaire PAC
On Monday, street videographer JJ Smith captured on camera what appears to be election crimes in San Francisco, California. In broad daylight.
The video shows a line of people at the corner of 6th Street and Mission Street in the SoMa neighborhood, soliciting signatures on Monday afternoon.
The clip begins with Smith walking up on the line with a sign that reads, “Can you read & Write? Sign Petition for $5.”
Smith asks a man in the line, “What’s the line for?” He responds that they’re “giving five bucks to sign a petition.”
When Smith asks the two women seated at the table, “I get $5 too?” She replies, “Yeah.”
“What is it?” he asks.
The woman responds, “Just sign it.”
The woman can then be seen highlighting a paper for another woman in the line but off camera.
“First name is going to be Carol, last name Sanderson. This is the address right here. This is the city, Avila Beach, and this is the zip code,” she tells the woman. As the woman takes the paper and pen to sign it, the worker says, “So remember, first name is ‘Carol’”.
🎥Mar09 2026 1:54pm Location
6th & Mission
These people are paying people $5 dollars to sign a ballot, but as you watch the video their telling them what name to sign (which is someone else name) and what address to write. Seems kind of suspicious to me. Why not sign your own… pic.twitter.com/GIHdLHaHCl— jj smith (@war24182236) March 9, 2026