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:"Ratfucking"

[guttentag]

Was just thinking the same thing and looking up the quotes:

BERNSTEIN
At USC, you had a word the this--
screwing up the opposition you all
did it at college and called it
ratfucking.
(SEGRETTI half-smiles, nods)
Ever wonder if Nixon might turn out
to be the biggest ratfucker of them
all?


...

DEEP THROAT
My turn to keep you waiting.
(approaches)
What's the topic for tonight?

WOODWARD
Ratfucking.

DEEP THROAT
In my day, it was simply called the
double cross. I believe the CIA refers
to it as Mindfuck. In our context,
it simply means infiltration of the
Democrats.

WOODWARD
I know what it means--Segretti
wouldn't go on the record, but if he
would, we know he'd implicate Chapin.
And that would put us inside the
White House.

DEEP THROAT
(nods)
Yes, the little ratfuckers are now
running our government.

I own the movie on DVD, but ironically, I had to go to a Russian site for the transcript.