A reality television personality is going public with explosive allegations that Los Angeles election workers denied her the ability to cast a vote for her brother during the city’s heated mayoral contest, adding fresh fuel to an already burning federal investigation into the integrity of California’s primary results.
Stephanie Pratt says she made two separate trips to the polls with the intention of voting for her brother Spencer, a candidate in the Los Angeles mayoral race, only to find his name completely absent from her ballot each time.
“I tried to vote twice for my brother with my Palisades address (I have my own home there),” Stephanie stated publicly, making clear she was a legitimate registered voter in the area.
When she sought a third attempt after two failed efforts, poll workers shut her down entirely.
“He was NOT on the ballot either time and they told me I couldn’t try a 3rd time,” she said.
Her accusations did not emerge in a vacuum. Federal prosecutor Bill Essayli, the top law enforcement official in Los Angeles, had already opened multiple investigations into suspected election fraud before Stephanie came forward with her story.
Those probes were set in motion after President Trump publicly charged that Democratic operatives were working to manipulate California’s primary elections and demanded accountability.
Rather than chasing a single sweeping conspiracy, Essayli’s team has been methodically targeting specific actors, stationing monitors directly inside ballot counting facilities and pushing forward a disputed audit of the city’s voter registration database.
Stephanie’s bombshell timing was notable. She went public just hours after a massive influx of newly counted ballots on Monday effectively ended her brother’s run for mayor.
That ballot dump sent rival candidate Nithya Raman surging ahead, knocking Spencer out of the race entirely and securing her place in a November runoff election.
Raman will face off against sitting Mayor Karen Bass, a figure she has had a prior personal relationship with, in that general election showdown.
Spencer had last been seen publicly in the wealthy Santa Barbara corridor before the ballot count delivered its decisive verdict against him.
What had started as a campaign many political observers openly mocked eventually commanded real attention. Spencer’s aggressive commentary on the failures of local leadership and his refusal to pull punches against entrenched political figures earned him a devoted base of supporters who rallied behind the unconventional candidate.
Refusing to concede before every last vote was tallied, Spencer fired off a passionate message to those supporters as the numbers tightened.
“Folks, we’re dealing with a fraction of a percentage point difference,” he told them. “There’s still hundreds of thousands of votes outstanding, and LA officials have given us the next three weeks to count!”
He ended his message with a signature flourish: “Let’s git-r-dun!”
Federal investigators remain active in Los Angeles as the counting process continues, with Essayli’s office keeping close watch over ballots and registration records alike.
