The Argus Leader has a report today headlined "6 former workers for GOP charged." These workers were charged with a misdemeanor (a crime less serious than a felony), but that rather salient fact isn't even in the lead paragraph of the story. One has to read much further to find that the crime these people committed "carries a maximum penalty of 30 days in jail and a $200 fine." Such a crime pales in comparison to a crime like forging signatures on registration applications. 277 South Dakotans swore under oath in 2002 that their signature had been forged on registration applications. Forgery is a felony with a maximum punishment of 5 years in prison and a $5000 fine. While there was no conviction in 2002, even the Argus Leader editorial board thought it was fishy that despite several people swearing under oath that their signatures on voter registration applications were forged, the state's handwriting "expert" determined their signatures were NOT forged. For more on what happened in 2002, be sure to read the chapter on the 2002 election in South Dakota in John Fund's new book "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy." You can read a pdf copy of the South Dakota chapter by clicking HERE.
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