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."

Comments

That should be a lesson to him

[mysidia]

You can only rig real elections and get away with it; not campus elections.

Because a campus is so small, and everyone knows if you cheat a little.

Not allowed on kids stuff:

[MobSwatter]

You can only rig real politics and get away with it.

Re:If he had only learned from the Simpsons

[causality]

And still no senior bankers in jail.

They own the jail. And the courts. And the legislature. And if you want to run for office you take their money and probably not directly from their hands.

So no, none of them in jail.

so....

[wbr1]

Aaron Swartz hacks for the dissemination of information. Gets browbeaten and threatned with so much time he kills himself.

This guy hack for only his own good and gets a year. Nice to know where our prosecutors priorities are.

Re:What?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe that's what the other guy did. #paranoid #slashdothatestwitterhashtags