With all the caterwauling some on the right have been doing about ACORN and their OMG VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD, it’s important to keep some perspective. For instance, while some on the right have made ACORN issue number one during this election, presumably so they can blame a loss by Sen. John McCain on the voter registration fraud supposedly perpetrated by ACORN, it’s important to note the right is far from innocent when it comes to voter registration fraud.
For example, let’s look at some rather “interesting” voter registration efforts by the Republican Party in California in 2006:
Faked names on voter registration forms. Error rates as high as 60 percent. Firing the people responsible for these errors. Investigations launched by local and state police. Sound familiar? This is not ACORN in the 2008 election’s final days.
This is the California Republican Party and its contractors in 2006, when the same problems that are now dogging ACORN and providing political fodder for GOP attacks plagued an effort by California Republicans to register 750,000 people.
Following the revelation of widespread voter registration fraud committed by companies hired by the California GOP, the California GOP halted its practice of paying workers $3 for each voter they registered as Republicans.
Now apparently conservatives in California didn’t learn their lesson from the voter registration fraud committed in 2006, because they’re back at it this year:
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….
“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.”
So yeah, what was that about ACORN?
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