It would be a huge mistake to give this man a get-out-of-jail free card.
Penalties for disrupting elections and disenfranchising voters do are absurdly light. Most of the time the felons are rewarded. They are wrongfully awarded public office and given more opportunities to betray the public trust.
Until we have serious penalties for election fraud, we can expect more criminals in the halls of power and more blatent tampering.
Twenty years wouldn't be too long. He should be denied the right to run for public office or participate in any more elections the rest of his life.
If we are locking up people for recreational drug use and turning a blind eye toward those that undermine one of the basic tenents of the United States Constitution, what does that say about our country?
Voters should insist that their rights are protected by serious consequences for those who interfere with the voting process.
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Never trust ANY politicians OR the corporate mainstream media. So when is Bush going to bomb Democracy NOW!??????????

Of course we need to have trust and faith in him... he's "The Counter", just like we need to go along with whatever Captain Queeg decrees cause he's "The Decider".

We need to follow his carieer in the future.

Personally I think he deservers the death sentence for violating the oath he probably took when he attained office.

If Bush pushes this country into a civil war he will probably get that at the hands of some vigilanties.

Just look at this guy. There HAS to be a way to get him on a trumped up drug charge.

I saw the honorable Alberto Gonzales on TV today. He seems to have to same top priorities for enforcement that Ashcroft had. Drugs and pornography.

The American people are out of control and it has to be stopped. Build more prison$.

What, you mean we could stop pornography by going after VISA and MASTERCARD?

What, you say "Big Pharma" sells dangerous drugs like Oxycontin?

someone should "plant" a joint on him ,he'll do more time for that than for stealing elections.
mick

p.s. MERRY Christmas from New Zealand to all Bradbloggers and visitors.

Merry Christmas, Mick, from balmy Prague! How the hell are they gonna justify letting this creep walk without doing any hard time? When I lived in Texas, if you got caught with a joint it was better to just shoot the cop and eat the joint, because your sentence would be much shorter for that! If you steal a bajillion bucks the worst you get is a few years at a country club lockup. It's time for some serious reflection.

If you're not going to trust anybody in elections, then you need to set it up to where the voter can be his own champion. You need to give the voter a ballot copy that is legally binding, as he votes, or you'll see the same sh*t that went on in Ohio, because if you can't be certain that they're going to follow the law, this is the last point at which anybody (who can be trusted) has seen that vote.
Whatever cheat has been attempted, it only needs to last out the challenge period (and not even that, if some bozo in the secretary of state's office will fax their own private certification in), and then you get stuck with the bozo that was cheated for.

Haha hah. "Spokeshole." Classic. Yah got that one right.

Before the Tony Anchundo conviction fades into history the good people of Monterey County would be wise to ask for a special prosecutor to put a spotlight on and investigate the Pebble Beach Company's Measure A ballot count. I'm just sayin' its bad enough that Clint and his posse have the majority of the Board of Supervisors completely in their pockets they now have Governor Ahnold on board with a surprise appointment to the California Coastal Commission whose vote could insure the destruction of Jeffers Forest, the last old growth coastal Monterey Pine Forest inside the gates to Pebble Beach.

For all the sordid details Brad's readers can visit the website for the county's fearless Concerned Residents of Pebble Beach and Monterey County - http://www.cr-pb.org

Correction to my comment #10: The 20,000 endangered old growth Monterey Pine forest that Pebble Beach Company desperately want to destroy for another 18-hole golf course and resort is adjacent to and borders the beautiful Jeffers Forest.