Six British legislators called for harsher sentences for a pair of fervently Orthodox local government politicians convicted of vote fraud last month. Isaac Leibowitz, of the Conservative Party, was sentenced to six months in prison, while Liberal Democrat Zev Lieberman was given four months.
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