Man Formerly Charged With Rigging Student Ballot Exposed As Labor Official

First time accepted submitter pocock writes "Motivated by reports of Matthew Weaver's twelve month jail sentence for rigging CalState student elections, a comprehensive blog describes in detail how a generation of student ballot riggers from the late 1990s have graduated unhindered into federal politics, playing a pivotal role in Australia's upcoming federal election. One can only wonder if Weaver had not been caught, would he too have eventually swiped a million dollars and put the SRC into liquidation?"

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Re:Weaver is a Labor Official?

[Trepidity]

It's confusingly written, but the blurb (and story) are just using him as the hook. The rest of the story is about Australian politics.

The premise seems to be something like this:

1. Heard about this guy Matthew Weaver, who's been in the news after he was convicted of rigging student elections in California?

2. Well, on that subject, did you know that a bunch of current Australian politicians also have a background rigging student elections back in their college days?