What’s perhaps most interesting here is what isn’t mentioned in this story, as written on the Los Angeles Times’ “L.A. Now” blog. First, here’s their entire blog item…
Laguna Beach resident Mark Jacoby, who collects signatures for petition drives, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to three years’ probation and 30 days of service with the California Department of Transportation.
Jacoby, owner of Young Political Majors, registered to vote at Los Angeles addresses that were not his own. State law requires petition circulators to be qualified voters. Jacoby will also be required to show proof he is registered at his correct address.
And what they didn’t bother to mention in that story?…Amongst other things, the fact that Jacoby and Young Political Majors were hired by the California Republican Party to head up their voter registration efforts in the state. Jacoby had been arrested for Voter Registration Fraud last October, smack dab during the media’s orgasmic heights of last year’s phony GOP ACORN “Voter Fraud” hoax, even as Fox “News” (and the other news outlets who similarly fell for the scam) was going wall-to-wall with unsupported insinuations about voter fraud by ACORN, Democrats, and Obama.
I heard the news about the arrest of Jacoby just as I was heading out for an appearance on Fox “News,” so I was able to break the news on-air in my own “Fox ‘News’ Alert.” (Video originally posted here, reposted at bottom of this item.)
Given the way the LA Times blog “covered” the story of Jacoby’s plea — not even mentioning the fact that this guy and his group were hired by the California state Republican Party — I’d say it’s a fair bet Fox wouldn’t even have bothered to mention the original arrest at all had I not been on air and forcing them to do so myself. Much as they are unlikely to bother reporting Jacoby’s plea today.
Ya think if the head of ACORN had made such a plea (or even been arrested at all) it might have been covered just a bit on Fox “News”?
Here’s the video from my appearance on Fox with inveterate GOP voter fraud hoaxster John Fund, on October 19, 2008. I broke the news of the arrest of the head of the CA GOP’s voter registration outfit, which I had just received from the CA Secretary of State’s office, in my own “Fox ‘News’ Alert”…
UPDATE: I hadn’t noted it originally (though it’s available in a number of the links in the story above), but though Jacoby pleaded guilty to the most benign offense, in fact, his company is alleged to have changed thousands of registrations from Democratic to Republican, assuring that those voters would not be able to vote, as expected, in the Democratic primary. When they didn’t outright fake voter signatures on change of registration forms, they used tricks to get voters to give their signature, fooling them into thinking they were signing a petition against child molesters or for cancer hospital funding.
And since it’s not clear to so many of the wingnuts linking into this post, allow me to underscore again that this was the head of the firm, which is also under investigation in three other states for similar activity. That all, of course, is a very different situation from ACORN where it was a handful of workers who were accused of registration fraud, and defrauding ACORN themselves, before being turned into official by ACORN themselves! Clear on that now, wingnuts? In the meantime, while voters were unable to cast votes at all thanks to Jacoby and YPM, there is not a single allegation of any actual voter fraud having been committed by, or at the behest of ACORN. They are, however, guilty of registering thousands upon thousands of low to middle income voters, who tend to vote Democratic, and thus, they continue to be the target of phony, baseless attacks from the desperate rightwing.
Hmmmm…we have vote fraudster Ann Coulter, this guy is a Republican, those guys in Kentucky, the New England phone jammer…jeez! They’re all Republicans! Yet, they are the ones always complaining about vote fraud! How ironic!
You should recap all them, Brad.
You should have a tag: “Republican vote fraud”…not just “vote fraud”.
And what the f*ck is going on with Franken and Coleman? That’s out of control how long that’s going on!
Still, what I got out of the article is they convicted Jacoby for his own false registration, i.e., he was soliciting registrations while fraudulently saying he lived in CA, which he didn’t. They still did not deal with all the fraudulent registrations he and his team gathered — they got Dems to register but put down bad addresses, changed their party, changed their vote preference (like to VBM) or other things that made these people have to, at best, vote provisionally. At least that’s my understanding of the situation.
Wonder if Fox News looked into election fraud and reported on it . Hmmmm
You do a great job on TV Brad!!!!!!!! Composed . clear… and love the good manners.
What about all the GOP accusations about ACORN vote registration fraud? Remember how the “liberal media” covered that 24×7? How are they covering this in comparison?
Brad, Melonie and myself sent the information about YPM to Debra Bowen, after trying unsuccessfully for months to get Dean Logan, then Zev Yaroslavsky, and finally Eric Bauman to investigate. All three would NOT. There is MUCH more to this story. These guys forged voters’ signatures, changed their parties of registration, addresses and more. This means that people could not vote in the primaries AT ALL in some cases, and in other cases could not vote on a regular ballot in the general. YPM registered 8000 voters in LA COunty and NOBODY has notifed those 8,000 voters TO THIS DAY that the registrations MAY be falsified. We notified them over and over again starting over a year ago. Yaroslavsky and Logan only notified the Democrats who were switched to GOP, none of the others. Noone checked the signatures for more possible forgeries at the Registrar’s office. We have pages of documentation of this and more. We tried and tried to get Zev to investigate and he had no interest at all. Nor did the Los Angeles Demcratic Party. The Democratic Party in other counties, including Ca counties, brought successful lawsuits against both YPM and the GOP. As far as I know, forging a signature on a voter’s registration is a felony, not a misdemeanor… I would be glad to put you in touch with the voter whose signature was forged.And to show you our many letters to the Supervisors and Registrar warning them of the possible disenfranchisement of thousands of LA voters before the November election.
WTF? Why didn’t the Sec of State check this out?
regarding comment #8, I believe you can submit complaints and evidence to a grand jury; I’m not so sure you need the blessing of all of those other people in order for an investigation to go forth
three years’ probation and 30 days of service with the California Department of Transportation.
Translation,
15 weekends wearing an orange vest picking up trash.
Three years of not “getting caught” for anything.
GOP has become a criminal enterprise that cannot win majority support on its merits/ideas/policies which go against the best-interest of 90% of America.
In fact, its worse than that, repugs really just loot the treasury, engorging a few key insiders and the military-industrial complex. “Fiscal conservative” is a lie that can only be “catapulted” with HUGE amounts of propaganda from the mainstream media.
Why don’t the dems really take these bastards on?
*Voter regitration fraud all over the country.
*Massive disenfranchise efforts to scrub millions of Americans (most non-majority) off the voting rolls.
*Outright theft of elections
Brad,
I laughed when I watched the video. I think at least one Republican I am acquainted with must have seen your report. I periodically attend (as an observer)King County, Washington’s “Citizens Election Oversight Committee” meeting. The Committee is made of “representatives” of various “stakeholders” in the community and has both Republicans and Democrats on the committee. There is one Republican on the committee who frequently brings up the issue of “voter fraud” and ACORN as being a big problem. Well, in the last meeting I attended, I was surprised to hear him refer to voter fraud, only to correct himself and say “voter registration fraud.”
Again, the Fox video cracked me up. The demeanor of the woman interviewer changed significantly after you brought up the report.
reply to #10. We are citizens, not lawyers. We pay the Registrar and the Supervisors salaries (quite good salaries at that) to oversee these matters. That is their job. Not a blessing we ask for….
I believe that the truth shall set us free. I appreciate your delivery of the truth in a quietly forceful manner. By contrast, the lies that Fox news puts out are further given away by their hysterics.
Fox, methinks thou doth protest too much.
My daughter’s was the case that is being pursued by the County D.A. regarding voter registration fraud. Her signature was forged and the information on the registration form they had on file was all incorrect and she was disenfranchised in last year’s primary.
I am waiting on an update from the D.A.’s office about her case, which is unrelated to Jacoby’s, and would be happy to fill you in on details.
Oh, gimme an f*ing break – is that all you whiny a$$ liberals can come up with? ONE republican voter registration fraud and all of a sudden the entire GOP is to blame? How about the counties here in Florida that had more votes cast (Obama by a WIDE margin) than REGISTERED VOTERS?!! How about the Black Panthers outside the polls in Philadelphia (and elsewhere) intimidating voters into voting for Obama? You moral equivalency morons make me want to puke…
Is that all you got Rafterman?
The guy intentionally and systematically disenfranchised upwards of 75,000 California voters.
That’s a very serious felony. And no where near as serious as signing up Mickey Mouse to vote.
Hey everyone, please read this alternet article about the Jacoby-YPM LA County voter registration fraud, written by Paul Lehto. Jacoby’s guilty plea is just the tip of the YPM iceberg. This is a must read. link here:
http://www.alternet.org/politic...ly_looks_like/
Hey, Rafterman, can you name a county or two where the “more votes than registered voters” thing happened in Florida? (Comment 17)
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The Government funded ACORN group has hundreds of complaints about voter registration fraud. Why is no one prosecuted?
John Fund in the Fox News video tried toblame the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) for forcing banks to make bad loans, according of course to “bankers I’ve talked to.” Intentional obfuscation of his sources aside, the truth is that 85% of the troubled mortgages are from banks not covered by the CRA because the law requires that loans be made in a “safe and sound manner.” Just like the voter registration fraud thay won’t report, Fox News has been at the forefront of these intentional misrepresentations of the CRA.
The most remarkable thing about this post is the number of times you used quotation marks to indicate that you’re being sarcastic. You know, that’s not actually clever.
actually the amazing thing is how much bullshit sidetracking of the topic using spelling errors as an excuse, when citizens are just trying to get the truth out quickly.
Cut us down, go ahead.