Tory MP's husband gets full fine for electoral crime

Former Federal Liberal MP and contestant on Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice Jakie Kelly retired at the 2007 Federal Election. However, to try and help the new tory candidate - a good friend of hers, Karen Chijoff - get over the line she decided to try something unorthodox.

Admittedly this wasn't the first time she had engaged in electoral dishonesty. In 1999 she was involved in a scam whereby the Tories enrolled dummy candidates under the names of the "No Badgerys Creek Airport Party" and the "Marijuana Smokers Rights Party" to try and capture the leftwing vote; a tactic that was them subsequently slammed by a senate inquiry for trying to con voters which also revealed that she had silenced the concerns of fellow campaign committee members because she thought this type of electoral dishonesty would be "a lot of fun".

Kelly spent long enough in the political gutter to pick up a few tricks it seems, so when the party needed that little extra push, her husband was front and center of the next trick in the book. Fraud.

This infamous pamphlet, designed to whip up racial hatred and turn it against their opponents (a common tory tactic under the then Howard government). The pamphlet, cooked up by bumbling tory hacks, purports to be produced by an organization named the "Islamic Australia Foundation" and praises the Australian Labor Party for supporting the Bali Bombers; then Jackie Kelly's husband and allegedly a member of the New South Wales state Liberal executive did the rounds dropping them off in constitutents letterboxes.

Jackie Kelly's Husband was today handed down the maximum penalty for this type of electoral dishonesty, too gutless to even appear at court, didn't get to hear the magistrate commenting that it would be difficult to think of a worse case on the matter.

Cheats, cheats, cheats.

Read the full debacle here.