Campaign Watch: Yes, Virginia, Republican voter fraud does exist

October 23, 2008

Yes, Virginia, Republican voter fraud does exist

I've been under the flu weather for the past few days but I didn't forget my recent friend "WhyisHeraldsobiased" who is still on the ACORN threat to democracy hunt -- and rebutted me by saying that Republicans don't do this sort of voter reigistration gamesmanship. Well, it took me all of a 20-second Goggle search to find that yes, a Republican can be arrested and charged for voter registration fraud. According to the Los Angeles Times on Monday: "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."
There was more -- "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." If true this was a nice touch. And like ACORN workers, there was money to mined for registering new voters. "The firm was paid $7 to $12 for every Californian it registered as a member of the GOP."

If Mr. Jacoby is guilty, he's a money-grubbing fool like the ACORN workers who wanted to line their pocket with phony registrations. But please spare me lectures about this massive subversion of Democracy. Even John McCain and Sarah Palin have begun to pipe down about the ACORN scam that wasn't -- mostly because they know it was pure BS to begin with.

McCain's last stand
I couldn't make it to Manchester yesterday to see John McCain in possibly his last campaign stop in New Hampshire. but like John Dickerson of Slate, I wonder: what was he doing here?

Posted by Michael McCord at October 23, 2008 09:43 AM

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Yeah, and then there's the whole voter registration fraud vs. actual voter fraud.

Mr. or Ms. WhyIsHeraldSoBiased might not like to be reminded of the Fox News juicy headline (Thursday, November 02, 2006): "Ann Coulter Voting Fraud Case Likely Will Be Turned Over to Prosecutors, Florida Elections Chief Says."

Oh my goodness! How can it be? What's her take on ACORN? Has she cracked that nut yet?

Not a single case of actual voter fraud can be traced to ACORN, unlike the Republican record.

Posted by: Gimp Face at October 23, 2008 05:35 PM

Geez McCord, I'm going to go easy on you since you are recovering from the flu, but reread what I wrote. I said I would love to point out the contrast in your blog if Republicans were purported to be doing the same sort of voter registration fraud. Meaning, you would be all over these desperate, crooked Republicans with greater outrage than you have shown towards ACORN. But then, you have never hidden your bias here anyway.

I remember in 2004 when Republican operatives were getting Republicans gathered in Stratham for a President Bush rally to sign papers to get Ralph Nader on the NH ballot. I bet if you had this blog back then you would have been all over that story.

Posted by: WhyIsHeraldSoBiased at October 23, 2008 07:05 PM

Conservatives couldn't stand McCain when he won the nomination. One, knowing I was Democratic, wrote me, "You might as well vote for McCain because there's no difference between him and the Democrats."

Now that he's trying so hard to please them, the moderates are leaving the Republican fold in droves to endorse Obama. David Brooks called Sarah Palin "a cancer on the Republican Party."

When McCain loses (as he will) it won't be because of ACORN or "the liberal media," it will be for reasons of his own missteps.

Picking Sarah Palin was a boneheaded move.

Rushing to DC to "solve" the economic crisis before the first debate -- trying to one-up Obama and bully him into following his lead was a bone-headed move.

Caving-in to the demands of the base to be tough and mean in every debate, when the first one revealed it wasn't playing well in Peoria, was bone-headed.

We've had seven Republican administrations in forty years, but John McCain can't fool "the liberal media?" That proves he's a candidate less talented than George Bush who fooled it twice.

Posted by: Gimp Face at October 23, 2008 08:05 PM

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