Editor’s note: Here’s an article from theВ LA Times about an actual voter registration fraud case with a real arrest. Not false allegations or insinuation of a possible threat to American democracy. A real fraud case, only its from Republicans. Nothing like a little irony to start off your workweek.В Hat tip to Georgia 10 at Daily Kos for theВ lead to the story. –Fe Bongolan
CA Republican Arrested for Voter Registration Fraud
By Evan Halper, LA Times Staff Writer
October 20, 2008
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 over the weekend 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 all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California. His firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM, collects petition signatures and registers voters in California and other states.
Jacoby’s arrest by state investigators and the Ontario Police Department late Saturday came after dozens of voters said they were duped into registering as Republicans by people employed by YPM. The voters said YPM workers 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.
Dan Goldfine, an attorney for Jacoby, on Sunday denied any wrongdoing by his client and called the charges “baseless.”