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Couple sentenced for voter fraud in bond election
By Walter Yost - wyost@sacbee.com
Published 2:45 pm PST Monday, November 5, 2007
A Fair Oaks couple charged with voter fraud in the largest school bond election in county history were sentenced to 60 days in jail or 360 hours of community service Friday in Sacramento Superior Court.
David and Tarah Meyer-Martin, husband and wife, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of fraudulently voting in an election they were not legally registered.
Although they voted in the March 27 Folsom Cordova Unified School District bond election, the couple's ballots were challenged and were not counted after Sacramento County Registrar of Voters Jill LaVine became suspicious of their legal residence.
The outcome of the $750 million school bond election was not affected by the case and the bond measure passed by the necessary two-thirds majority. The measure was approved by 81 percent of the voters living in an assessment district with only 231 residents qualified to vote.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Gary Ransom also sentenced the couple to three years' informal probation.
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