The federal law for voting for someone else (vote fraud) is only 5yrs jail and/or $10,000 fine. That's not enough.
Vote fraud needs to have high max sentences to deter criminals. The judge can always give someone a light sentence if the offense was minor, while reserving the 50 yr sentences for people like illhan and her goons.
The way they emphasized her exploitation of her own minority community reminds me of the tribe that gave rise to the concept of "Cargo cult." On further study and reflection, the behaviors of the less intelligent islanders were apparently guided and exploited by a few savvy ones who realized their new meal ticket was to show and tell anthropologists what they wanted to see and hear.
In the US, the conservative bogeyman is ever encroaching "socialists." As usual, when examining this scheme, the bottom-up motivation of virtually all the players isn't striving for abstract political goals, but personal material gain and greed.
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