{OT:} CA GOP Vote Registration Contractor Arrested for Registration Fraud, Perjury

BREAKING: CA GOP Vote Registration Contractor Arrested for
Registration Fraud, Perjury

SACRAMENTO – The owner of a signature-gathering firm that works across
California was arrested in Ontario today 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. 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.

The Secretary of State’s fraud unit and the Ontario Police Department
arrested Jacoby near an Ontario hotel just before midnight Saturday.
An arraignment date has not been scheduled yet.

“Voter registration fraud is a serious issue, which is why I
vigorously investigate all allegations of elections fraud,” said
Secretary Bowen, California’s chief elections officer. “Where there’s
a case to be made, I will forward it to law enforcement for criminal
prosecution.”

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.

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.

On October 3, the Public Integrity Unit of the Los Angeles County
District Attorney’s office charged Jacoby with four felonies: two
counts of voter registration fraud and two counts of perjury. A
warrant was issued for his arrest and bail was set at $50,000.


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