elections.foxnews.com - 10/20/2008
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The head of a signature-gathering firm hired by the California Republican Party was arrested over the weekend for allegedly lying about his address to to vote in the state.
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 ...
calitics.com - 10/20/2008
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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 ...
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: Arrest Made in Widening GOP Voter Registration Fraud ...
pr.thinkprogress.org - 10/15/2008
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ELECTION '08 The Truth About Voter Fraud As
the 2008 election process draws near -- and with...
early voting in many states having already begun -- conservatives are raising a great hue and cry about the threat of voter fraud. Attacks have centered on ...
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Election '08 -- The Truth About Voter Fraud
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WTF Is It Now?!? —
This is hysterical -- Good news: the republicans have found a clear-cut case of voter registration fraud to prosecute. Bad news: the alleged perp is the head of the Republicans' California voter registration effort. ...
Narrative Push Back on McCain Campaign Themes
Newshoggers.com —
... Firstly, Republican operative Mark Jacoby was arrested in California for voter registration fraud, having fraudulently registered himself and then committed further fraud by registering others while being falsely registered. It is also alleged that he "duped" voters into registering as Republicans, for which his firm, Young Political Majors (YPM), were paid per GOP registration. TPM was hired by the California Republican Party, which claims the arrest was "politically motivated." ...
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GOP operative arrested for voter fraud in California.
thinkprogress.org 10/21/2008 — Over the weekend, police and state investigators arrested the “owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year…on suspicion of voter registration fraud .” Voters charge ...
Irony Alert: GOP Political Consultant Arrested For Voter Registration Fraud
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/20/2008 — For all the outraged Republican claims of rampant voter fraud we've seen in the last few weeks, it's worth noting that authorities have had enough evidence to arrest only a tiny number of people in connection with the problem, almost all of whom were ...
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 ...
More Fraud
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
motherjones.com 11/2/2008 — VOTER REGISTRATION.... Matt Yglesias seconds Rick Hasen's proposal to make ACORN's registration drives (and the quadrennial conservative meltdown over them) obsolete by just having the federal government do it: The solution is to take the job of ...
THE VOTER FRAUD FRAUD.
prospect.org 10/15/2008 — It's probably worth saying that the ACORN gambit isn't exactly a new strategy. It's just the latest iteration of what Art Levine has termed the "voter fraud fraud":
Voter fraud is actually less likely to occur than lightning striking a person, ...
Supreme Court rules against Ohio GOP —
First Read 10/17/2008
From NBC's Pete Williams and Mark MurrayIn a victory for the state of Ohio, the US Supreme Court has overturned a lower court order, freeing the state from a requirement that it share information about voter databases with county election boards.
The ...
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