The FBI busted a few people in West Virginia for buying votes - $2,000 worth! I feel better knowing our electoral system has been safeguarded against this sort of major voter fraud.
They allege Esposito gave $2,000 in government-supplied money to a resident who had offered to bribe voters on his behalf.Of course, the FBI will no doubt be turning it's powerful crime fighting abilities to the massive voter fraud and campaign finance abuses taking place at the national level, right? I mean, they are the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
They also credit the undercover sting operation for last year's guilty pleas by the sheriff of Logan County and the police chief in the coal-mining city of Logan, who both admitted to election violations.
The chief judge of West Virginia's southern federal court district condoned the tactic Thursday in an election fraud case against Perry French Harvey Jr., the man who allegedly accepted the $2,000.
Judge David Faber rejected arguments from Harvey's lawyer that the government had acted improperly by putting up a sham candidate.
Full AP story.
