Mark Jacoby, who heads the vote-registration-fraud operation Young Political Majors (YPM), was arrested today in California by agents of the office of Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

Calitics reports this from an emailed press release from the office of the Secretary of State’s Election Fraud Investigation Unit:

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."

This comes after reports, at Campaign Silo, of YPM shenanigans for Nader in Arizona.

Jacoby’s arrest stems not from these charges, nor from the charges of "slamming" — changing registrations to GOP without a voter’s knowledge.