Ohio poll worker Melowese Richardson voted illegally several times, said she'd fight it for Obama, Sister Marguerite Kloos also charged with illegal voting in Ohio
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3/11/13,
"Cincinnati poll worker charged with voting half dozen times in November," Eric Shawn, Fox News
"She admitted voting twice in the presidential election last November,
and now, Obama supporter Melowese Richardson has been indicted for
allegedly voting at least six times. She also is charged with illegal
voting in 2008 and 2011.
The 58-year-old veteran Cincinnati poll worker, indicted Monday,
faces eight counts of voter fraud. Two others, one of whom is a nun,
have been charged separately.
Richardson had admitted on camera to a local TV station, "Yes, I
voted twice," claiming she was concerned that her vote would not count.
She also said there "was no intent on my part to commit any voter
fraud."
"I'll fight it for Mr. Obama and Mr. Obama's right to sit as president of the United States," she proclaimed in the interview.
Officials charged that she voted in her own name by absentee ballot
and also in person at the polls, but Hamilton County Prosecuting
Attorney Joseph Deters said she also is charged with voting in the name
of five other people in various elections.
"This is not North Korea," Deters said in a statement announcing the
indictments. "Elections are a serious business and the foundation of our
democracy. In the scheme of things, individual votes may not seem
important, but this could not be further from the truth. Every vote is
important and every voter and candidate needs to have faith in our
system. The charges today should let people know that we take this
seriously."
Richardson made national headlines when the Hamilton County Board of
Elections announced that it was investigating whether she voted up to
half a dozen times, including on behalf of her granddaughter, India
Richardson.
India told Fox News that her grandmother did indeed vote in her name, telling us that "it wasn't a big deal." But voting twice or in another person's name is illegal.
Prosecutors say the five other people for whom Richardson cast ballots are all relatives.
Sister Marguerite Kloos also faces one count of illegal voting, for
allegedly submitting an absentee ballot in the name of a fellow nun,
Sister Rose Marie Hewitt, who had died before absentee ballots were sent
out. She is accused of opening Sister Hewitt’s ballot, forging her
signature and mailing it to the Board of Elections as a vote.
The 54-year-old Kloos has resigned as the dean of the Division of
Arts and Humanities at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati,
where she still serves as an associate professor of religious and
pastoral studies.
Kloos was not indicted but faces what is known as an information,
because her lawyer contacted prosecutors and she agreed to cooperate and
plead guilty....
Hamilton County prosecutors are investigating three additional cases of possible voter fraud." via Free Republic
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