calitics.com - 10/20/2008
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Mark Jacoby, head of the firm Young Political Majors that has been implicated in the growing scandal over Republican fraud in voter registrations. The Secretary of State's Election Fraud Investigation Unit led the inquiry that resulted in the arrest and had this to say in an emailed press ...
latimes.com - 10/19/2008
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latimes.com —
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 ...
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GOP voter registration fraud case leads to arrest - Los ...
bradblog.com - 10/20/2008
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bradblog.com —
This just in as Brad is headed over
to the FOXNews studios. Yesterday the LA Times reported...
on the Republican voter registration outfit who had apparently been illegally changing thousands of registrations from Democratic to Republican. Last night ...
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BREAKING: HEAD OF CA GOP VOTER REGISTRATION OUTFIT ...
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Arrest made in GOP voter registration scandal
Majikthise —
... Mark Jacoby, the president of a GOP signature-gathering firm accused of tricking California voters into registering as Republicans under the guise of signing a petition to keep pedophiles in jail, has been arrested in Ontario, CA on suspicion of committing voter fraud. ...
YPM Head Arrested In California
Firedoglake —
... Mark Jacoby, who heads the vote-registration-fraud operation Young Political Majors (YPM), was arrested today in California by agents of the office of Secretary of State Debra Bowen.
Calitics reports this from an emailed press release from the office of the Secretary of State's Election Fraud Investigation Unit: ...
Ah, so there IS Voter Registration Fraud
Angry Bear —
However, it's just a Republican in California. Who are re-registering people to be Republicans, without their knowledge, on the guise of opposing child molestation. (h/t Laura Rosen) Will wait patiently for John McCain's attack on Mark Jacoby (not this one).
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Calitics: Someone has finally been arrested for voter registration fraud. I'm sure John McCain and cohort will be pleased
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Republican Arrested for Voter Registration Fraud
Daily Kos —
... 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. Oh, that's right. When fraud is committed against ACORN, that's Democrats trying to steal an election. When Republicans are arrested for voter registration fraud, that's a different story... Calitics has more: This arrest comes on the heels of recent media ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/14/2008 — So what about those made-up names on voter registration forms? Well, it’s an inevitable consequence of ACORN paying people based on the number of names they bring in — it creates an incentive for people to pad their lists. But how ...
Voter Registration
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Democrats: McCain, GOP Must End 'Hypocrisy' on Voter Registration Fraud
onthehillblog.blogspot.com 10/22/2008 — The national and California state Democratic parties are calling on the Republican Party to end their "hypocrisy on voter registration fraud" and sever all ties with long-time GOP operative Mark Jacoby, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) says in a statement.
Why we need to take voter registration fraud seriously
betsyspage.blogspot.com 11/4/2008 — When people raise a fuss about the shenanigans of ACORN in registering fake people, the rejoinder has been that ACORN just can't help themselves because of a few dishonest people they hired to register people. And even if the high number of fake forms ...
THE VOTER FRAUD FRAUD.
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A Real Case of Voter Fraud:
volokh.com 10/22/2008 — Why am I so interested in voter fraud allegations? Perhaps because the first time I looked into voter fraud allegations, they turned out to be real -- ballots had been forged...
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