False signatures --who is committing the felony?

[Rooktoven]

This is a letter of the law topic. ---Not advocating breaking any laws!

Recently another DUer (and then I in another post) advocated signing bogus entries to people soliciting for Nader signatures. I further went on to suggest that this would be a good way to get him disqualified from the ballot. While I acknowledge that this is playing dirty, is there any lawyer who can attribute whom exactly is committing the felony?

I think that if signing "Barney Fife" to a petition on the street is a felony, then there are all sorts of inherent entrapment opportunities. It would seem to me (in my limited legal understanding) that those risking felony are the submitters.

Again, not debating ethics, just the letter of the law.

[dsc]

1. The signer definately is

the submitter may be. If you, on purpose, sign someone else's signature to a legal document you are committing fraud. The submitter may be if he or she knows the signature is false.

[Rooktoven]

4. From the examples I was shown, the submitters were the ones targeted --nt

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. yeah but thier not gonna make a federal case of someone who signs

the name Hue Jass on a petition

[EXE619K]

3. Rovian politics!

That's sick...whoever came up with that idea.

It's not an issue of hating/not hating someone.

That's just sick.

Especially from the Dems.

:puke:

[fujiyama]

5. Rovian tricks eh?

Sounds good. It's about damn time democrats learned how to play dirty!