Y.P.M. organized by Mark Jacoby, witness statement.

I Nicolas Guillermo was contracted by Mark Jacoby (Y.P.M.) initially in the beginning of 2006.
I was paid by the signature for several petitions between February and May of 2006.
When Mark introduced the paid registration cards around April, he instructed us that we would only be paid on Republican registration cards where the signer initialed by the republican box. When I asked why, he replied, “so you don’t get charged for voter fraud.” Why would I get charged with voter fraud? If I had a petition signer place their initial on the card close the republican box right before they signed, they would never know it if I switched their party. I was surprised at how many people would not fill in the party box at all when they filled out the card on their own. It is very easy to conceive how some of Jacoby’s petitioners could get over 500 republicans a week, they would switch voters on college campuses and Wal-Mart store fronts. I have seen his worker named Krystal, fill in cards for people. I have seen huge stacks or Republican reg. cards turned in for pay by his worker Carlos. I had to ask Carlos how he was able to get 500 plus reg cards a week, he would not tell me. Krystal however agreed to retrain me one day, every single person she encountered, she would ask them for an ID and start a reg card for them with out asking. Krystal would never ask them to fill in the card accept for the initial and signature, she would uncountable switch their card for them. I have been trained by marks crew to trick voters to signing petitions by saying “these are just duplicates” after the top petition in a stack was signed, their response “see how easy it is”. Several of Marks petitioners used this and other deceiving tactics to trick voters into signing all petitions.

I was mentally abused by Mark several times. He would take other workers out of state and force them to stay on a location for over 15 hours a day before he arranged for their transportation to and from hotels. Mark owes myself and others thousands of dollars from bouncing his last pay check of a petition drive. I of course have proof of this and his failure to pay me my money.

In Arizona, I was a witness to his strategy of having petitioners, take out several trainees, and sign their petitions. The trainees would be paid a lesser value per signature than the circulators for as long as the circulators could get away with it. Mark trained them to sign petitions they did not collect. I know this because I worked for him when Andrew Chaves of Petition Partners instructed me, that because he hold the main contracts for all the petitions, I had to work for Mark if I wanted to petition in Arizona. At the time I was not truly a resident, I did not know I was breaking any laws; Mark has his petitioners follow him all over the country and petition in states they are not truly residents in.
Mark had me turn in petitions to J.S.M. run by Jenny Breslin, I was never paid by her either. I once turned in petitions to Marks mother, I was never paid for those as well.
Derrick Lee, John Burkett and Ron Tomscak all participate in republican drives, people that work for them should be questioned if you can find them. All these coordinators owe money. Tomscak of SanDIego never paid me even for republicans that I turned in in the spring of 08. I turned in hundreds of republicans that drive, all of which decided republican on their own. Lee and Burkett both failed to pay me my final pay check.
I am no longer involved in petitioning, after getting burned on my paychecks year after year. I’m would rather pursue justice, helping myself and others get their money back from the coordinators. Help me in my case, by putting other petitioners who were not paid in contact with me, or visa versa. It will benefit us all as we can use this information to make a federal case out of all the petition coordinators fraud. Perhaps then, we can put the bad ones out of business. Thank you for your time.
Cordially yours,
Nico R. Guillermo