Hall campaign manager convicted in Ohio voting fraud probe

Amy Little, former campaign manager for Congressman John Hall, pleaded guilty this week to misdemeanor illegal voting charges.

The fifty-year old resident of New Paltz, New York was sentenced to year of probation, a 60-day suspended jail sentence, and fined $1,000.

Bizarrely, while being investigated and eventually convicted of voter fraud, Little herself was the keynote speaker on a forum on "Democratizing Elections: Permanent Registration, Public Funding, Weekend election Day, and Problems with Electronic Voting Machines" at Manhattanville College earlier this month.

Hall's campaign paid Little $11,139 in consulting and travel fees during the 2008 election cycle.

Little had been charged in Ohio during a get-out-the-vote effort during last year's presidential campaign.