GOP Voter Registration Fraud Case Leads To Republican Arrest

[SunsetDreams]

By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
2:38 PM PDT, October 19, 2008
SACRAMENTO -- The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario late last night on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California.


Jacoby's arrest by state investigators and the Ontario Police Department comes after dozens of voters said they were duped into registering as Republicans by his firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM. The voters said YPM tricked them by saying they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters. The firm was paid $7 to $12 for every Californian it registered as a member of the GOP.

Several agencies had launched investigations into Jacoby's activities, including the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, which issued the warrant for his arrest earlier this month on felony charges of voter registration fraud and perjury.

Efforts to reach Jacoby were unsuccessful.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud20-2008oct20,0,3842357.story

[DrToast]

1. The GOP is destroying the very fabric of our democracy!!!!11111*

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[SunsetDreams]

2. no kidding

[Helga Scow Stern]

7. Just what I wanted to say. And I mean it. That they are trying. n/t

[WCGreen]

3. All these allegations and investigations and there is one arrest...

A fucking republican...

Oh irony, you can be so sweat...

[underpants]

10. The ACORN crap is cover FOR THIS

that we already knew

[boppers]

4. ACORN ACORN ACORN... oh. whooops.

:rofl:

[SunsetDreams]

17. love your sig :)

[azurnoir]

5. Well this explains even more about

the ACORN "kerfuffle", and some of the rumours about how ACORN paid its employees a combination of projection and "quick look over there"

[SunsetDreams]

11. Nail meet head!

This case is a month old, and just how long ago was Acorn allegations made? hmmm a couple weeks ago?

[MagickMuffin]

6. Do you think McCain will mention how THIS guy is destroying the Fabric of OUR DEMOCRACY

Probably NOT one word will be uttered by McCain.

I hope they throw the Book at him and he receives the FULL extent of the LAW.

[orestes]

8. Not only will McCain not utter a word

But I bet the MSM will give nary a peep about this.

[SunsetDreams]

13. Yeah we'll see how much they care about accusations vs. an actual arrest

[Bubbha Jo]

9. Karma is so cool......... n/t

[Sodan]

12. Oh the irony .. lmao

[goodgd_yall]

14. Good

But how uninformed can you be to fill out a voter registration form and think you are signing a petition? These must be first time registrants who don't how a standard registration is done.

[SunsetDreams]

15. They were victims, The GOP is the perpetrator.

[goodgd_yall]

22. Yes, I know

I'm not saying the victims are also responsible---it just occurred to me while reading the article that you had to be an inexperienced voter not to know the difference.

[SunsetDreams]

16. kick

[grannylib]

18. So when is the M$M gonna jump all over this one?? I'm waiting...

[SunsetDreams]

23. I'm waiting too....and waiting

[Rocknrule]

19. Finally, the law being applied to a Republican

[Joe Chi Minh]

20. Do I hear sweet music playing?

[Undercurrent]

21. .