Republican operative arrested on charges of voter fraud

[ArcturusMengsk]

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SACRAMENTO -- The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario late last night on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California.


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 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.

Several agencies had launched investigations into Jacoby's activities, including the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, which issued the warrant for his arrest earlier this month on felony charges of voter registration fraud and perjury.

Efforts to reach Jacoby were unsuccessful.

Who wants to make a bet that those rugged individualists in the Republican Party will use this as a platform to whine about persecution?

[SirNitram]

This is an interesting trick that's come up the past few cycles, but I'm still at a rather desperate loss for what the hell good it is. The GOP's illegal endeavours usually have a fairly obvious end-product, but this seems.. I dunno. Can someone enlighten me as to the gain?

[Duckie]

This is an interesting trick that's come up the past few cycles, but I'm still at a rather desperate loss for what the hell good it is. The GOP's illegal endeavours usually have a fairly obvious end-product, but this seems.. I dunno. Can someone enlighten me as to the gain?

Makes it look like the Republicans aren't falling behind in registrations, presumably. Also, probably since they put their address down (one would need to in order to register, I believe) they'd get mailed republican campaign literature.

[RedImperator]

This is an interesting trick that's come up the past few cycles, but I'm still at a rather desperate loss for what the hell good it is. The GOP's illegal endeavours usually have a fairly obvious end-product, but this seems.. I dunno. Can someone enlighten me as to the gain?

Could just be regular old fraud. The company does collect money for each signature.

[ArcturusMengsk]

More Republican voting shenanigans

The McCain campaign reacts to Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor Joe Deters, a McCain regional chairman who's used his elected office to subpoena personal information on about 40 percent of the 671 voters in the county who both registered and voted in the one week window between the start of mail-in voting and the deadline for voter registration.

"Although Mr. Deters filed this in his capacity as Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney and not as an official of our campaign, we remain concerned by the federal investigations and numerous accusations surrounding ACORN's questionable voter registration activities. Because these practices have been paid in part by his campaign, Barack Obama has a responsibility to be straightforward about his relationship with ACORN," said McCain-Palin spokesman Paul Lindsay.

Surely an abuse of the powers of that office ought to be of some concern to Maverick McCain, right?

[Scottish Ninja]

This is an interesting trick that's come up the past few cycles, but I'm still at a rather desperate loss for what the hell good it is. The GOP's illegal endeavours usually have a fairly obvious end-product, but this seems.. I dunno. Can someone enlighten me as to the gain?

Usually the fake "petition" they present is one favorable to left-wing causes; the result is that with the Republican party registrations sent in with these people's signatures on them, they have their right to vote challenged on the grounds that they're double-registered. Although in this case, the "petition" isn't really of that nature, so it is a bit odd.

[Covenant]

This is an interesting trick that's come up the past few cycles, but I'm still at a rather desperate loss for what the hell good it is. The GOP's illegal endeavours usually have a fairly obvious end-product, but this seems.. I dunno. Can someone enlighten me as to the gain?

Usually the fake "petition" they present is one favorable to left-wing causes; the result is that with the Republican party registrations sent in with these people's signatures on them, they have their right to vote challenged on the grounds that they're double-registered. Although in this case, the "petition" isn't really of that nature, so it is a bit odd.

The way I read it being interperted it was to attract donor money by saying "Hey look at all our new registered Republicans! With a little cash we can feed the need for Conservatism in this godless hinterland--will you donate?"

[The Yosemite Bear]

This is an interesting trick that's come up the past few cycles, but I'm still at a rather desperate loss for what the hell good it is. The GOP's illegal endeavours usually have a fairly obvious end-product, but this seems.. I dunno. Can someone enlighten me as to the gain?

it's called caging votes, you set up a petition which is actually a republican registration in a democratic party stronghold, over something that's pretty universal in appeal, and you disenfranchise all of the signees under suspicion of voter fraud.