Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the ballot box, it's Ninja Election Fraud!

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- A 21-year-old student was arrested for allegedly hacking into a university computer system during student elections to cast hundreds of votes for a made-up candidate he named American Ninja.

Shawn Nematbakhsh, a computer science major at the University of California, Riverside, was arrested Friday for investigation of drug possession and altering computer data without permission.

If convicted, he could face up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He was being held Saturday on $10,000 bail. Arraignment was set for Tuesday.

Couldn't they give the guy some sort of sentence break for being funny?