Former Cal State Student Gets Year In Prison For Rigging Campus Election 135
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."
What? (Score:5, Informative)
Dupe:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/07/17/1455204/former-student-gets-year-in-prison-for-college-president-election-fraud
Re:If he had only learned from the Simpsons (Score:5, Informative)
Really. All this work for a lousy student government election which in the real world means absolutely nothing!?!
He should have remembered that episode of the Simpsons where Bart runs for class president and loses.
Homer: Bart, does the class president get paid? Bart: No.
This position had a large stipend attached. $8000 is a lot for a student. I don't know why the summaries never mention this. I guess it makes for more controversy when it is fraud for something rather meaningless rather than plain old fraud for cash.
Re:If he had only learned from the Simpsons (Score:5, Informative)
China owns about 8% of the US debt.
US debt is about 80% owned by the US.