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Former Cal State Student Gets Year In Prison For Rigging Campus Election
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from ABC News: "A former student was sentenced to a year in prison for rigging his school elections at California State University-San Marcos so he could become student president, court documents show. Matthew Weaver, 22, was charged in January with wire fraud, access device fraud and unauthorized access to a computer. He pleaded guilty in March, admitting that he had stolen the email passwords of more than 740 students and used them to vote for himself 630 times during the student elections in March 2012... Right before the voting ended, on March 15, 2012, officials noticed 259 votes coming from another IP address. Officials tracked the IP address to a classroom, and found Weaver sitting there. There was only one other student in the lab, according to court documents. A university police officer arrested Weaver and seized his bag, subsequently discovering that he had stashed the keyloggers there."
If hes black he can cry RACISM and get out of any consequences as long as one person involved in prosecuting him is white.
But he is almost certainly not black for the following reasons. 1- He's in college (duh). 2 - He has some rudimentary computer knowledge. 3 - he got caught easily so crime is probably not something hes been doing all of his life. 4 - Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton aren't crying about how unfair it is that actions have consequences even if youre black because, slavery!