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Death of a Talking Point

It’s hard to accuse your opponent of paying off people to commit voter fraud when your campaign paid off people who committed voter fraud:

John McCain paid $175,000 of campaign money to a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states, it has emerged.

As the McCain camp attempts to tie Barack Obama to claims of registration irregularities by the activist group ACORN, campaign finance records detailing the payment to the firm of Nathan Sproul, investigated several times for fraud, threatens to derail that argument.

The documents show that a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the Republican National Committee and the California Republican Party, made the payment to Lincoln Strategy, of which Mr Sproul is the managing partner, for the purposes of “voter registration”.

Mr Sproul has been investigated on numerous occasions for preventing Democrats from voting, destroying registration forms and leading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to leach the Democratic vote.
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“It should certainly take away from McCain’s argument,” Bob Grossfeld, an Arizona political consultant who has watched Mr Sproul’s career closely, told the Huffington Post. “Without knowing anything of what is going on with ACORN, there is a clear history with Mr Sproul either going over the line or sure as hell kicking dirt on it, and doing it for profit and usually fairly substantive profit.”

In May this year, both ACORN and Mr Sproul were discussed at a hearing of the House subcommittee on commercial and administrative law. One Republican member, Congressman Chris Cannon, concluded: “The difference between ACORN and Sproul is that ACORN doesn’t throw away or change registration documents after they have been filled out.” 

If the American press picks this story up and puts it together with the arrest of Republican fraudster Mark Jacoby, that should be the end of any discussion over ACORN.

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10/23/08 8:18 am | Comment (2) | Permalink | Tags: , , , , ,

Republican Arrested for Voter Fraud

Oh, I missed this goody while I was studying this weekend. Remember when John McCain called for an investigation into voter fraud? Well, it looks like he got his wish:

SACRAMENTO — 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.

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.

The firm was paid $7 to $12 for every Californian it registered as a member of the GOP

Looks like the McCain campaign is reaping what it sowed. For that record, there has been one Republican arrested for voter fraud this eleciotn and cycle and zero Democrats.

10/20/08 4:36 pm | Comment (1) | Permalink | Tags: , , , ,

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