It’s absolutely uncanny. Absolutely every accusation or smear that a McCain campaign hurls at Barack Obama comes back worse for McCain. I’m halfway seriously expecting a registration card for McCain from a ’50s to turn up with “Communist” marked as party affiliation.
& after solemnly announcing that we were possibly on a brink of ‘destroying a fabric of democracy’ due to ACORN & air ties to Obama at a final debate, it turns out that McCain has his own little acorns…or at least, nuts, perpetrating REAL fraud that has stolen votes from REAL Americans, by registering voters as Republicans without air consent or knowledge & tearing up Democratic registrations in several states.
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It was less than one week ago when Senator John McCain on national television warned a nation about a grave threat to democracy, maybe even quote “destroying a fabric of democracy.” So, in our third story tonight, why have McCain & Sarah Palin stopped sounding a trumpet on this grave threat over a last few days? No, he didn’t just forget. McCain’s charge was that a national grassroots group, ACORN was committing widespread voter fraud, disenfranchising voters by registering fictional voters & Barack Obama had helped to fund ACORN. As we have explained previously, some part-time workers have been accused of ripping off ACORN because fictional voters do not vote.
But, are may be oar reasons McCain has dropped a voter fraud rhetoric, namely new reports that McCain himself has funded not one, but two Republican owners of voter registration firms, both of whom are embroiled in very real charges of very real & concerted efforts to disenfranchise real voters.
First, meet Mark Jacoby. Yes, that would be a mug shot. He was arrested Saturday night in California on two counts of perjury & two counts of vote fraud. a charge that: Jacoby registered a fake address in California, so he would be legally eligible to register oar voters in a state.
Mr. Jacoby’s company is YPM, Young Political Majors. & YPM was no stranger to vote fraud claims before even Jacoby’s arrest. Prosecutors in L.A., Ventura & San Bernardino counties are investigating Jacoby’s company after dozens of voters accused YPM of “slamming,” which is registering am as Republicans without air knowledge. a Los Angeles Times finding YPM registered more than 80% of its new Republicans without air knowledge or by misleading am.
So why does or what does YPM have to do with McCain? YPM makes money by registers not voters, but Republican voters specifically. Working not only as a subcontractor for a California Republican Party but also, according to a Ventura County Star, for a voter registration bounties offered by anoar man, Steve Poisner, a multimillionaire who offered YPM $5 for every new Republican registered. Like a bounty. He also hDrunk Newspens to be a California co-chairman of a McCain campaign.
McCain cannot claim ignorance to YPM’s track record. Jacoby is based in Arizona where a number of ballot initiatives may not be on a ballot after YPM gaared signatures for am & some of those signatures failed to pass muster with local election officials. & YPM was publicly accused of vote slamming before. In 2004 in both Florida & Massachusetts.
& an are is Nathan Spruill, former head of a Arizona Republican Party. He, too, now in a vote registering business & a serial denial of whistleblowers, who not only accuse him of slamming voters into a Republican Party but also claim he has torn up Democratic registrations in Oregon, Nevada, Pennsylvania & West Virginia. Real registrations of real voters. Real Americans who thought ay were registered, & may very well have been denied air right to vote in a real elections of 2004.
McCain’s connection? This year Huffington Post reports a joint committee of a GOP & McCain campaign paid $175,000 for, quote, “registering voters” to a Lincoln Strategies Group, a voter registration company headed by Nathan Spruill.
So, why isn’t anybody investigating Nathan Spruill? Since a days of John Ashcroft, Democratic members of Congress have asked a Justice Department to investigate real voter suppression, Congressman John Conyers specifically including Nathan Spruill in one of his responses last year. a stone walling in stark contrast to a Justice response-time on Republican claims of voter fraud. Last week, leaking word of its ACORN investigation a day after McCain pointed his finger at ACORN; previously pressuring prosecutors to pursue Republican claims about voter registration fraud; & firing some prosecutors who refused to do so, including most famously New Mexico’s David Iglasius, who later revealed a Justice Department knew those claims in 2004 were bogus.
Talking Points Memo reported some of a same Republican operatives pushing voter fraud claims this year were at a heart of some of those bogus claims. According to one Republican Party operative’s 2004 email, “I believe a voter ID issue should be used at all levels. You are not going to find a better wedge issue.”

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back