{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/08/11/chairman-johnson-requests-doj-investigate-california-ballot-fraud/", "Chairman Johnson Requests DOJ Investigate California Ballot Fraud", "2026-08-11", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", "ronjohnson", "https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 On Monday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, Federal Bureau of Investigation (\u201cFBI\u201d) Director Kash Patel, and First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bilal Essayli, requesting an investigation into potential ballot fraud occurring in Los Angeles, California. The letter follows a Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing held last month at which James O\u2019Keefe, CEO of O\u2019Keefe Media Group, testified about alleged violations of federal and state elections law through a cash-for-signatures scheme in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles.\n\nIn his letter, Chairman Johnson wrote that in March 2026, O\u2019Keefe Media Group published a series of videos showing petition circulators paying homeless individuals cash, cigarettes, or marijuana for their signatures on various ballot measures. Based on this reporting, Chairman Johnson\u2019s letter identified two entities, Urban Signers and 1 Moore Petition LLC, alleged to have engaged in misconduct.\n\n\u201cThese entities\u2019 apparent actions risk undermining confidence in our democratic process,\u201d wrote Chairman Johnson.\n\nFull text of the letter to the FBI and the Department of Justice can be found here.\n\nWatch the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-12T06:18:38Z", "2026-08-12T06:20:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/08/11/chairman-johnson-requests-doj-investigate-california-ballot-fraud/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5923483297228813, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}