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 ...
timesonline.co.uk - 10/22/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
John McCain paid $175,000 of campaign money to
a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud
in several states, it has emerged. As the McCain camp attempts to tie Barack Obama to claims of registration irregularities by the ...
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McCain campaign paid Republican operative accused of ...
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 ...
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Keith Olbermann Rails Against Voter Registration Fraud
Say Anything —
Not, of course, the tens of thousands of instances of voter registration fraud perpetrated by ACORN and its agents in states all over the country but rather that one case of voter registration fraud involving some Republican guy that broke as a story last week.
Because tu quoqe is such a persuasive argument.
Can we just admit that all voter registration fraud is bad? And that some Republican guy engaging in voter fraud does not excuse the tens of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations ACORN has filed all over the country after ...
Dems: Repubs are voter-fraud phonies
The Swamp —
by Frank James
The Democratic National Committee had a teleconference late Tuesday to denounce Republicans for alleged hypocrisy on the voter registration fraud issue.
What got the DNC all riled up was the arrest of Mark Jacoby who owns a company hired by the California Republican Party to do voter registration. Jacoby was charged with voter registration fraud, the very same crime Republicans have alleged has been repeatedly committed by the Democratic-leaning group ACORN.
As the Los Angeles Times reported Monday:
State ...
We Are All Chaylee Cole
DownWithTyranny! —
This morning all Americans should feel pride in one of us-- no, not Charles Keating's Ohio relative Joe the unlicensed plumber-- in Fremont State University student Chaylee Cole. When someone stands up to the inhuman all-powerful Machine and just says "no," the way Cole did, it is a person striking a blow for our national dignity and our liberty for all of us. On Friday she lost her job in West Virginia. She lost her job because she refused to read a Republican script lying about Barack Obama, smearung him and degrading American politics. "I was working at the call center," Cole said. "We got a campaign ad ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
More "voter fraud" fraud
WWW.samefacts.com 1/29/2009 — Republican prosecutor in Ohio says there was evidence of massive voter fraud, refers the case to a Republican special prosecutor who used to work for him. Special prosecutor checks 600 accusations, finds one actual case.
Republican prosecutor isn't ...
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.
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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