"The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster." - Oscar Wilde

Yep, disgusting. Another proud moment for Hoosiers, NOT.

A couple of minor points.

First, the Judge who gave a single year's home detention for six felonies, Steven R. Nation, is a Republican.

Second, to his credit, Judge Nation rejected a defense motion to reduce the six felony convictions to six misdemeanors. Had he done so, White could have continued to serve as the Hoosier state's chief elections officer.

Canada is following in the US's footsteps in voter suppression techniques:

http://www.theglobeandma...&utm_content=2350944

Adam8 (slandered by RawStory staff, autocratically banned by RawStory's dictator Roxanne Cooper)

If home detention really means being detained at one's home, I think a year of home detention is an appropriate (and stiff) penalty.

Prison conditions in many parts of the U.S. basically constitute cruel and inhuman punishment. A civilized society should not be comfortable with "jokes" whose theme is the likelihood of being raped while in prison.

Under these circumstances, home detention is appropriate for non-violent criminals. I wish it was the standard for non-violent drug-related offenses.

Now if you could just be as critical of all the election hijackers in government, despite partisan politics, you would be offering us gold, Brad. I tell you! You are --->this close

this close

this close...to reporting the truth. Neither Democrats nor Republicans care about free and fair elections. They all just want to win. No matter the cost. Until you admit it – I mean REALLY admit it to yourself – you will never be able to put it all together, sir.

Oh, my. I just read your full story at Salon, which includes this:

Prude, a 43-year-old African-American woman from Milwaukee, was convicted of cashing a counterfeit check for $1,254 in 2000. She never served any jail time but was still on probation four years later, at the end of 2004, when she attended a Democratic election rally. Marching with others to City Hall that day, Prude registered to become a voter and later voted by absentee ballot, since she had also signed up to serve as a poll worker and therefore wouldn’t be available to vote in person on Election Day. Since she hadn’t served time in jail, she thought she was permitted to vote, but later found out from her probation officer that she was wrong. She immediately called City Hall in hopes of rescinding her vote. Her thanks for doing so? She was convicted of felony voter fraud by the U.S. attorney in the state of Wisconsin and sent to prison for more than a year.

If that story is true, it does paint a year of home detention in a different light.

Mitch -

Glad you got the full story. Yeah, I saw your comment earlier, but didn't have time to respond. Was gonna say largely what you have now said in your second comment. And that was the point. If she had received a year of home detention, I wouldn't be complaining (as loud, anyway, since he was found guilty of SIX felonies, and took no responsibility for any of them, claiming he'd been screwed.) That's a big contrast from what Prude did in her case.

Same is also true of Usman Ali's case.

Ononymous - You're not even "this close". Again, you seem to miss the entire point of the story. But, again, using the lazy "they all do it", seems much much cleverer than paying attention to the context of the story.

As to your claim that I don't believe Democrats are interested in winning. Well, you're just making stuff up. So, yeah, you weren't even that close.

Really, you don't have to try so hard to make your point here at The BRAD BLOG. When you do, you end up missing your targets by a mile.

Home detention, with NO cable, no internet - wired or wireless, and NO smartphone. Strip him naked, delouse him, cavity search him, scour the house for electronic devices, then hand him a rotary phone.

Three felonies and not a day in jail?
Impeach the judge for public corruption.
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