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bradblog.com - 10/20/2008
BREAKING: HEAD OF CA GOP VOTER REGISTRATION OUTFIT ARRESTED FOR REGISTRATION FRAUD
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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 the head of that GOP backed group, Mark ...
latimes.com - 10/19/2008
GOP voter registration fraud case leads to arrest - Los Angeles Times
— 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 ... (more) GOP voter registration fraud case leads to arrest - Los ...

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politico.com - 10/16/2008
Joe's registration
— politico.com — Joe Wurzelbacher doesn't immediately turn up in the Ohio voter registration database, leading to some speculation last... night that he's not registered to vote. But the Toledo Blade reports that he appears to be a registered Republican, and a ... (more) Joe's registration

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calitics.com - 10/20/2008
: Arrest Made in Widening GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal
— calitics.com — 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 ... (more) : Arrest Made in Widening GOP Voter Registration Fraud ...
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Brilliant at Breakfast:  They're Going to Steal It Again, Part III: Republican Voter Registration Fraud in California

Open Left - Front Page:  Living in Glass Houses: The GOP's Own Man is Convicted of Voter Registration Fraud

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They're Going to Steal It Again, Part III: Republican Voter Registration Fraud in California
Brilliant at Breakfast — Brad Friedman was on Faux Noise yesterday breaking the news that the head of the Republican voter registration group, Young Political Majors that was coercing people into registering as Republicans in order to sign a petition, has himself been arrested for voter registration fraud. From the California Secretary of State's press release (posted at Bradblog): Mark Anthony Jacoby, who owns the firm known as Young Political Majors (YPM), was arrested after allegedly registering himself to vote, once in 2006 and again in 2007, at an address where did not live. ...

The "leftist voter fraud" lie
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... Amongst other things, the fact that Jacoby and Young Political Majors were hired by the California Republican Party to head up their voter registration efforts in the state. Jacoby had been arrested for Voter Registration Fraud last October, smack dab during the media's orgasmic heights of last year's phony ...

Living in Glass Houses: The GOP's Own Man is Convicted of Voter Registration Fraud
Open Left - Front Page — ... "Jacoby and Young Political Majors were hired by the California Republican Party to head up their voter registration efforts in the state. Jacoby had been arrested for Voter Registration Fraud last October, smack dab during the media's orgasmic heights of last year's phony ...

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