Now I know why McCain and the Republican Mafia have been attacking Acorn. It's an attempt to diffuse expected problems by demonizing your opponent first - standard Republican dirty tricks - this one first used by Republican President Richard Nixon. The expected problems, by the way, are just now coming to light.
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The owner of a Republican signature-gathering firm that works across California was arrested in Ontario recently 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.
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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. For his business, Jacoby traveled California and a number of other states collecting petition signatures and registering voters. Under state law, signature-gatherers must sign a declaration stating that they are either registered to vote in California or that they are eligible to do so. Jacoby allegedly registered to vote at his childhood address to meet this legal requirement.
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Under California law, it is a felony punishable by up to three years in prison to register yourself when you are not entitled to vote and it is perjury to provide false information on a voter registration card.
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Jacoby's firm, Young Political Majors, was accused by dozens of voters of tricking them into registering as Republicans. The voters said they thought they were signing a petition calling for stiffer penalties for child molesters. Young Political Majors had been hired by the California Republican Party.
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Here's an interesting video uploaded to YouTube that does a rather good job of explaining who and what Mark Jacoby is. It starts off a little slow, but gets inetersting about a minute into the video. There are some good shots of Jacoby's office being "invaded" by investigative reporters.
Running time is 2:51.
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