In a great story followed by the LA Times, Mark Jacoby, owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired this year to register thousand of voters, was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud. Turns out Mr. Jacoby falsely registered himself at a California address that is not his own in order to meet California's legal requirement to register others to vote.
THIS AFTER dozens of California voters came forward to report that his firm, YPM, had duped them into registering Republican by asking them to sign a petition for "tougher penalties against child molesters". According to the Times, "YPM has been accused of using bait-and-switch tactics across the country. Election officials and lawmakers have launched investigations into the activities of YPM workers in Florida and Massachusettes. In Arizona, the firm was recently a defendant in a civil rights lawsuit."
In California, if these voters didn't discover the change, they would be disqualified from voting in their party's next primary.
So, I know they're both bad, but indulge me: which is worse? Filling out a bunch of obviously false registration cards (Tony Romo, Mickey Mouse, Jimmy John, etc.) or duping an actual person into changing their party affiliation?
PS - Unlike ACORN, YPM does pay by the card, not by the hour.
(Tip of the hat to Rob for this one.)
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