Lacy ’s slate order business is , he claims , the largest in the state of California , if not the entire country , and it wreaked so much havoc on California local elections that even Orange County residents revolted with a ballot requiring slate mailers disclose . Lacy fought to have the courts void the will of Orange County ’s voters , and the courts agreed , saying that putting restrictions on how badly Lacy could deceive voters violated his First Amendment rights and constituted a form of tyranny . So both lawyers whose names are on Gary Johnson ’s main campaign group since 2009 are not only associated with right - wing extremists and violent nativist vigilantes , but more importantly , both of them specialize in fraudulent vote schemes that help their Republican Party clients win elections by deceiving contact.prevarication.broadcast Democratic Party voters . Lacy has been poisoning American politics since his radical - right college years when he was national chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom . In recent years , Lacy has been a major backer of anti - immigrant Minutemen groups , Islamophobia , and " birther " conspiracy - theory outfits smearing Obama as a foreign - born Muslim .