More about YPM, vote slamming repigs mentioned by KO.

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Stone meet glass house. :rotf:

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http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/19/ypm-head-arrested-in-california/

YPM Head Arrested In California

Mark Jacoby, who heads the vote-registration-fraud operation Young Political Majors (YPM), was arrested today in California by agents of the office of Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

Calitics reports this from an emailed press release from the office of the Secretary of State's Election Fraud Investigation Unit:

The owner of a signature-gathering firm that works across California was arrested in Ontario today on suspicion of committing voter registration fraud, Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced.

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http://calitics.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7226

Arrest Made in Widening GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal
by: Robert in Monterey
Sun Oct 19, 2008 at 14:45:46 PM PDT

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 and had this to say in an emailed press release:

The owner of a signature-gathering firm that works across California was arrested in Ontario today on suspicion of committing voter registration fraud, Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced.

Mark Anthony Jacoby, who owns the firm known as Young Political Majors (YPM), was arrested after allegedly registering himself to vote, once in 2006 and again in 2007, at an address where did not live. An investigation by the Secretary of State's Election Fraud Investigation Unit revealed that Jacoby twice registered to vote at the address of a childhood home in Los Angeles although he no longer lived there....

"Voter registration fraud is a serious issue, which is why I vigorously investigate all allegations of elections fraud," said Secretary Bowen, California's chief elections officer. "Where there's a case to be made, I will forward it to law enforcement for criminal prosecution."


It should also lead us to ask why Steve Poizner is funding YPM's efforts.
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http://calitics.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6958

But then that's the modern Republican Party for you - making baseless charges against someone else (i.e. ACORN) to hide their own criminal behavior.

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CDP To Poizner: Stop Funding Voter Registration Fraud
by: California Democratic Party
Tue Sep 16, 2008 at 15:41:03 PM PDT

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Title updated.
When Republican State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced with California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring on August 28, 2008 that he would contribute enough money to pay $5 for every new Republican voter registration, no one expected a voter registration card "slamming" program.

In San Bernardino County the California Republican Party with their local Republican affiliates hired a firm from outside California called YPM - Young Political Majors, owned by a man named Mark Jacoby and run out of Florida and Arizona - to commit the same voter fraud that got YPM run out of other states.

California Democratic Party :: CDP To Poizner: Stop Funding Voter Registration Fraud
Moreover, this isn't something new. YPM has a bad track record stretching back years and years. For example, the following story comes from an article written in 2004:

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/23/Hillsborough/Students_complain_of_.shtml

Election 2004
Students complain of false party swap
Scores of college students say they were tricked into changing their registration to the Republican Party when signing petitions.


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