Two men convicted in Pennsylvania mayoral race election fraud case hit with harsher sentences than expected

A judge slapped two men who pleaded guilty in connection with a voting fraud scheme with tougher prison sentences than the government had even requested.

"In the court’s view, there are very few crimes in our federal code which are more serious than what you have committed," Judge Harvey Bartle III scolded former Millbourne Borough Council vice president Md Nurul Hasan, according to Votebeat. "What you have done is undermine our democratic process."

Hasan pleaded guilty to charges...