Some Votes Count More, Some Less

This is one for the books. Unbelievable! Here's Diane from Respublica again with another East St. Louis election fraud story, this one involving the chairman of the election board. This even tops Chicago!

And the follow-up on other election dirty tricks. AP:

A congresswoman's son and three Democratic campaign workers were sentenced Wednesday to four to six months in jail for slashing tires outside a Bush-Cheney campaign office on Election Day 2004.

The men pleaded no contest in January to misdemeanor property damage. A fifth worker was found not guilty.

"This case had to be a public example of what can happen when you interfere with voters' rights," said Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael Brennan, who rejected prosecutors' recommendation of probation for the four men.

The state Republican Party had rented more than 100 vehicles to give rides to voters and poll monitors on Nov. 2, 2004. The cars were parked outside a GOP campaign office when the tires were punctured. The vandalism left the drivers scrambling for new vehicles.

So the judge was tougher than the prosecutors. Good for him. They'll probably be out before the next election, so maybe they'll think twice about pulling anything again.