Recount Riggers Get Maximum Sentence!
Two Cleveland, Ohio, election workers got the maximum 18 month jail sentence Tuesday when they were sentenced for rigging the recount in 2004. The judge said he thought they were still protecting someone.
One outside investigator seems to agree:
Erie County Prosecutor Kevin Baxter, appointed as an outside investigator to look into the election board in Cleveland, told that judge that the women had been uncooperative in the investigation and appealed for prison time for both.
“The defendants have never come clean,” he said.
The two women were supposed to randomly recount ballots in the Kerry-Bush race but they wanted to avoid the extra work so . . .
Prosecutors said the employees broke the law when they worked behind closed doors three days before the Dec. 16, 2004, recount to pick ballots they knew would not cause discrepancies when checked by hand so they could avoid a lengthier, more expensive hand recount of all votes.
Paper trails are worthless if election workers act like this.