READER COMMENTS ON
"Head of CA GOP Voter Registration Firm Pleads Guilty to Voter Registration Fraud"
(25 Responses so far...)
COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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Big Dan
said on 6/17/2009 @ 6:16 pm PT...
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!
COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
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Big Dan
said on 6/17/2009 @ 6:17 pm PT...
You should recap all them, Brad.
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Big Dan
said on 6/17/2009 @ 6:18 pm PT...
You should have a tag: "Republican vote fraud"...not just "vote fraud".
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Big Dan
said on 6/17/2009 @ 6:19 pm PT...
And what the f*ck is going on with Franken and Coleman? That's out of control how long that's going on!
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Kim kaufman
said on 6/17/2009 @ 6:33 pm PT...
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.
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molly
said on 6/17/2009 @ 6:40 pm PT...
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.
COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
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Big Dan
said on 6/17/2009 @ 7:21 pm PT...
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?
COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
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Robin Gibson
said on 6/17/2009 @ 11:06 pm PT...
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.
COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
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annoymoose
said on 6/17/2009 @ 11:28 pm PT...
WTF? Why didn't the Sec of State check this out?
COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
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d
said on 6/17/2009 @ 11:29 pm PT...
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
COMMENT #11 [Permalink]
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Phil
said on 6/18/2009 @ 6:37 am PT...
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.
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another joe
said on 6/18/2009 @ 7:22 am PT...
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
COMMENT #13 [Permalink]
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elizabeth Walter
said on 6/18/2009 @ 9:48 am PT...
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.
COMMENT #14 [Permalink]
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Robin Gibson
said on 6/18/2009 @ 12:22 pm PT...
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....
COMMENT #15 [Permalink]
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Vivi
said on 6/18/2009 @ 3:59 pm PT...
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.
COMMENT #16 [Permalink]
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Melonie Magruder
said on 6/18/2009 @ 5:33 pm PT...
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.
COMMENT #17 [Permalink]
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Rafterman
said on 6/18/2009 @ 7:13 pm PT...
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...
COMMENT #18 [Permalink]
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Dan-in-Pa
said on 6/18/2009 @ 7:27 pm PT...
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.
COMMENT #19 [Permalink]
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Robin Gibson
said on 6/18/2009 @ 9:26 pm PT...
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/...fraud_really_looks_like/
COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
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tampabaydemocracy
said on 6/18/2009 @ 11:26 pm PT...
Hey, Rafterman, can you name a county or two where the "more votes than registered voters" thing happened in Florida? (Comment 17)
COMMENT #21 [Permalink]
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RightWingersHateAmerica
said on 6/18/2009 @ 11:52 pm PT...
COMMENT #22 [Permalink]
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MUCMUC
said on 6/19/2009 @ 8:04 am PT...
The Government funded ACORN group has hundreds of complaints about voter registration fraud. Why is no one prosecuted?
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Andrew
said on 6/19/2009 @ 9:05 am PT...
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.
COMMENT #24 [Permalink]
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Comish
said on 6/19/2009 @ 10:46 am PT...
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.
COMMENT #25 [Permalink]
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Phil
said on 6/19/2009 @ 11:42 am PT...
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.