From today’s Columbus Dispatch
3 voting advocates guilty
Three staff members for Vote Today Ohio, an independent get-out-the-vote organization supporting Barack Obama, pleaded guilty in Franklin County this afternoon to improper voting.
The three came to Ohio from states where Obama was likely to win in an effort to swing Ohio’s electoral college vote toward their candidate, Judge Charles A. Schneider said. The judge gave all three 60 days in jail but suspended it if they paid a $1,000 fine. He also ordered a year’s probation.
Back during the election, there were actually articles and pictures in the paper about a house on the east side where something like 20 people were registered to vote, and all of them except the home owner were from out of state. I don’t think anything ever came of it. Maybe these are some of those jackasses. Still, only a $1,000 fine for messing with the election process?
The money quote isn’t in this online version, but one of these hippies was worried that this conviction would ruin her chances of ever being involved in politics again. We can only hope.
MM has a post on it here.
April 29, 2009 at 8:49 am |
Yep, and even with stories like that, down here in Texas the Dems are pitching a wall-eyed fit about requiring a state-issued photo ID to vote.