“On the day she was crowned homecoming queen, Emily Grover wore a sparkly silver dress. A bouquet of roses rested in the crook of her arm, and a crown adorned her curled blond hair. Then the achievement crashed down around her: Prosecutors accused her and her mother, an assistant principal in the same school district, of casting hundreds of illicit votes to rig the election. Grover was expelled from her high school, and her mother, Laura Carroll, was suspended from her job.” WaPo: Teen accused of rigging vote to become homecoming queen will be tried as an adult. (Only in today’s America could rigging a homecoming election be treated as a more serious crime than trying to overturn a real one.)