Not witnessing a signature is a crime if you sign an affidavit saying you did.

But how you are punished depends on who occupies the office of Attorney General, and… well, who YOU ARE!

When Larry Long was Attorney General (back in 2004), six Republican notary publics faced charges for signing that they witnessed signatures, when in fact they hadn’t.  This “scandal” involved over 1,400 signatures.  It might be important to note that these six were “working” for the Republican Party.

They were charged with improper use of a notary commission, a Class 2 misdemeanor punishable by up to a month in jail and a $200 fine and the possibility of losing their notary licenses.

The States Attorney, Dave Nelson, had this to say…”Notary violations are very, very common” in government and business”.

Ten years later…

… someone else is charged with signing that she witnessed 37 signatures when she did not personally witness them signing.  Her name is Annette Bosworth.  She dared to challenge a former Governor in the Republican primary for US Senate.  Charges were filed by Attorney General Marty Jackley, a political donor, fundraiser and appointee of the former Governor.  The charges:  12 felonies, carrying the potential penalty of 24 years in prison, $48,000 in fines and the loss of her license to practice medicine.

Jackley took this “crime” so seriously that he engaged the DCI to “investigate” (some say interrogate and intimidate) people who had signed the Bosworth petitions.

This hardly seems like even-handed dispensation of justice.

***Gordon Howie is an author and CEO of Life and Liberty Media***

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