Over at the Oregonian’s breaking news blog, Anna Griffin has the verdict in the case against Vladimir Golovan, who was charged with breaking the law while he “collected” signatures for city council candidates Emilie Boyles and Lucinda Tate.

The verdict: Golovan was found guilty of 10 of the 12 charges against him, although he was acquitted of the two charges related to Boyles’ case. In a weird spin on one of the weirdest political stories in recent memory, Golovan attempted to place all of the blame on Bruce Broussard, the perennially unsuccessful candidate who’s run for just about every office you can think of.

Golovan claims that Broussard somehow mastered the whole forgery/lying scam, then turned on Boyles, Tate, and Golovan once he had the dirt on them. Golovan also claims that he had permission from Russian and Ukrainian immigrants to forge their signatures, because Boyles was against same-sex marriage.

The mind boggles. The O has been camped on this story from the word go, and they’ve got a nice collection of daily coverage from the trial here. Go ahead and try to wrap your head around it.

In the meantime, I’ve stumbled across Boyles’ MySpace page, which I highly recommend you check out. Pay special attention to all of the comments from her “friends.”