[Vision2020] GOP voter registration fraud case leads to arrest

[lfalen]

Thats good, prosecute him.
Roger
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From: Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:01:18 -0700
To: Vision2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] GOP voter registration fraud case leads to arrest

> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud20-2008oct20,0,3842357.story
> 
> GOP voter registration fraud case leads to arrest
> Mark Jacoby, who was arrested in Ontario and owns a firm hired by the
> California Republican Party, violated state registration laws,
> authorities say.
> By Evan Halper
> Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
> 
> 2:38 PM PDT, October 19, 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 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.
> 
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