Our system of fair voting for representative government is the only thing that keeps us safe from devastating civil war.
Tampering with that system is one of the most serious crimes imaginable.
That ship left the harbor a long time ago. Many elections are fixed now. It’s a sham.
The crime is certainly serious, but life sentences and executions are usually reserved for violent rapes or murders. Since the sentencing would be comparatively mild to those, why worry about how competent he is to stand trial when he’s considered competent enough to vote? Also, he doesn’t sound incompetent, and why does he have to understand every proceeding in court when that’s what his lawyer is supposed to do?
Whatever happened, and I’m not sure he’s at fault since the voting machine technician could just as easily been the culprit, a paper ballot system would have prevented this. My county uses paper ballots which you slide into the scanner under the watchful eye of a poll worker.