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Former Cal State Student Gets Year In Prison For Rigging Campus Election

Posted by timothy on from the do-son-of-sam-laws-apply-after-that? dept.

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."

3 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What? by sourceholder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently he rigged the /. submission system as well.

  2. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dupe, dupe, dupe,
    Dupe of URL
    Dupe, dupe,
    Dupe of URL
    Yes, oh, I, I'm gonna link you
    Nothing can stop me now
    'Cause I'm the Dupe of URL...

  3. Re:College student governments actually do have po by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    As an example a state university in florida will have 20-30000 students and a student government budget in the millions. A budget bigger than some small cities.

    Holy fuck, that's a huge variance! I wish I was one of the twenty, though. Unless there were only twenty because global warming flooded Florida.

    [I know he meant 20k-30k]