Under state law, the penalty for that type of violation is to be removed from office. * Four other Republican lawmakers may have violated campaign-finance laws and face full-scale probes of their campaign coffers. * Constantin Querard, a political consultant who worked for three of those lawmakers, is under scrutiny for disguising an early ballot mailer as an official invitation from the Republican Party. The former corporate attorney and one-time chairman of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission has been picked to sort through the thick paper trail that drips with political ramifications.