Last June, five members of the East St. Louis Democratic Party were convicted of taking part in a vote fraud scheme. Votes were purchased for $10 each. The original price for a vote was $5, but the top of the local ticket, Democrat Mark Kern, was viewed as racist by the East St. Louis Democrats. So the price-per-vote doubled.
Vote buying, by all accounts, had been going on for years in East St. Louis.
Today, two of the five guilty were sentenced in federal court, according to the Belleville News-Democrat.
Sheila Thomas received a sentence of 18 months, Yvette Johnson got off with just probation.
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