CA, GOP Vote Registration Contractor, YPM, Arrested For Voter Registration Fraud

[bridgit]

'Owner of YPM Arrested for Voter Registration Fraud

The owner of a signature-gathering firm has been arrested on suspicion of voter registration fraud, authorities said Sunday.

Mark Anthony Jacoby, who owns the firm Young Political Majors, is accused of registering himself to vote twice— in 2006 and in 2007— using the address of a childhood home in Los Angeles where he no longer lived.

The Secretary of State’s Office said Jacoby used the address to meet a state requirement that signature-gatherers sign a declaration stating that they are either registered to vote in California or are eligible to do so.

State investigators and local police arrested Jacoby shortly before midnight Saturday near an Ontario hotel on a warrant issued by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office earlier this month.

Jacoby faces four felony charges: two counts of voter registration fraud and two counts of perjury. Voter registration fraud carries a penalty of up to three years in prison. Jacoby could not be reached for comment.

This is not the first time that Jacoby has been embroiled in voter controversy.

Earlier this year, dozens of voters accused YPM, which had been hired by the California Republican Party, of tricking them into registering as Republicans. The voters said they thought they were signing a petition calling for stiffer penalties for child molesters.

In 2005, Massachusetts voters made a similar complaint.

They said a signature-gathering firm that Jacoby was working for as a subcontractor—Arno Political Consultants— duped them into signing an anti-gay marriage petition when they were told they were signing a ballot question about the sale of wine in grocery stores.

One signature-gatherer told a state hearing that Jacoby had personally trained her in the bait-and-switch tactic.'

http://blueherald.com/2008/10/owner-of-ypi-arrested-for-voter-registration-fraud

And our Debra Bowen tagged him: Go Debra!!

[opihimoimoi]

1. The GOP supporters who go over the line...face JAIL....go ask Allen Raymond

:toast:

[bridgit]

2. Works for me...

:toast:

[Richard Steele]

3. Typical republican circa 2008. Glad he got busted. K&R

[bridgit]

4. I think that's why all the fuss about ACORN, republican ass is hanging out on all this stuff...

and everything else is a diversion

[Richard Steele]

5. There's almost nothing they say these days that isn't a product of PROJECTION.

This is the second election cycle that they've tried
to turn ACORN into some "national scandal", while
they blatantly use every dirty trick they can think of
to disenfranchise literally MILLIONS of voters.

They're a hollow shell being propped up by a disproportionally
large media presence- they're a decided MINORITY that shrinks
by the day. And their supporters KNOW it, in their hearts-
that's why we're seeing more radicalized rhetoric, and why
I fear we'll be seeing some real violence from Repub dead-enders.

Remember, the KKK was originally started by Confederate Loyalists
who "went underground" to continue the Civil War as a guerilla action...
I suspect we'll see some similar group created from the death throes
of the Republican Party.

[bridgit]

6. I appreciate your post, ds, good to see you around...

:)

[Winterblues]

7. two counts of voter registration fraud and two counts of perjury.

Not sure what Republicans feel about voter registration fraud but we know that they don't consider Perjury to be any big deal.. Libby is proof of that...

[bridgit]

8. Yes, perjury. It does seem they are fine with registration & election fraud