Personally, I think it should be a capital crime, and considered a specific case of Treason.
Messing with our electoral process, the very foundation of our representative government, is a clear example of "giving aid and comfort" to the enemies of our system.
I second that opinion. There should be zero tolerance for any vote tampering regardless of party.
Heh -- I wrote the above about an hour before I ran across the following transcript of Peggy Noonan talking about voter fraud on Hannity and Colmes:
NOONAN: Look, here's the big problem.Two great minds... :-)
COLMES: What are they afraid of?
NOONAN: The worst thing that could happen Tuesday is that there are a lot of cases of treason. What do I mean by treason?
COLMES: Treason?
NOONAN: Yes. What do I mean by treason? I mean finagling with the vote. I mean stealing votes. I mean illegal voting. I mean dead people voting. I mean...
COLMES: Yes, there should be...
NOONAN: ... voter...
COLMES: All right. Then why...
NOONAN: We are in trouble...
HANNITY: Good point.
NOONAN: ... in this country, and the...
COLMES: You know what, Peggy? You're...
NOONAN: Alan, let me just say it. We're in trouble in this country in the world. We face extraordinary challenges. We cannot take it on the chin as a democracy again. We can't damage ourselves again. We can't damage ourself from one of this country to the other. I think anyone who does that will be guilty of a terrible sin against democracy...
I'd get onboard with that!