Only in The South: A rigged Homecoming election? Yep, it happened, and the perps got caught

For all of his false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump would probably give this next story a pass.

In Contentmont, Florida, the Homecoming ceremonies at J. T. Tate High School went off without a hitch on Halloween weekend. Or so everyone thought.

Study the picture of the young lady in the middle. The press isn't identifying her as she is being treated as a juvenile even though she's 17. We'll call her Jane Doe as a result. Anyway, the innocent smile on her face hides the fact that she cheated to earn the crown. Her mother is an assistant principal at an elementary school in the same district.

Four and a half months after what was supposed to be one of the high points of her senior season, Jane Doe is now out of school, expelled after it was learned that she, with the approval and assistance of her mother, used modern technology to rig the election in her favor. More than 250 false votes were cast on her behalf, but where Jane slipped was the fact that the votes were traced back to their IP source----her cell phone.

Dum-da-dum-dum-dumb!

Mother has been suspended from her job, and likely won't be coming back, and Jane is trying to figure out where she went wrong. The real question is why she did it, then brag about it to her friends. This ain't exactly "Mean Girls", ya know.

Let me give you an analogy from the comics.

7 years ago, Betty & Veronica began a storyline where the Riverdale teens went off on a foreign exchange student sojourn across the globe. Veronica wanted this gig all for herself, and with her dad's help, mostly money, of course, the vote was rigged in her favor, but ultimately, Betty got to tag along after all. Unfortunately, the storyline dragged for over a year due to Archie Comics demoting the series to bi-monthly.

That brings us to now, and Jane Doe, risking her mother's career and her collegiate future by pulling a stunt worthy of Veronica Lodge. She's paid the price publicly by being expelled, and likely forced to return the crown, though that wasn't mentioned in the wire service articles making the rounds.

Couple this with the story about a Pennsylvania parent and her cheerleader daughter from the other day, and you wonder what gets in the heads of these parents these days.