Ohio Obama supporter convicted of voter fraud

[Warlord]

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Democrat Melowese Richardson candidly admitted to Cincinnati’s Channel 9 in February that she voted twice in the 2012 election. “I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States,” she proclaimed (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/11/cincinnati-poll-worker-charged-with-voting-half-dozen-times-in-november/) in the interview.


Today Melowese Richardson was convicted of felony voter fraud.

She faces up to six years in prison.

Cincinnati.com (http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130528/NEWS0107/305280074) reported, via True the Vote (http://www.truethevote.org/news/ohio-poll-worker-melowese-richardson-convicted-of-felony-voter-fraud):


Long-time Hamilton County poll worker Melowese Richardson was convicted Monday of illegal voting and could go to prison for up to six years for it.

Richardson, 58, of Madisonville, pleaded no contest to four counts of illegal voting – including voting three times for a relative who has been in a coma since 2003 – in exchange for prosecutors dropping four other illegal voting charges. Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Ruehlman immediately convicted her, making her a felon.

A Hamilton County poll worker since 1998, Richardson admitted she voted illegally in the 2008, 2011 and 2012 elections.



Related… One in five (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/report-one-out-of-every-five-registered-ohio-voters-is-bogus/) registered Ohio voters is bogus.

H/T GatewayPundit (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/ohio-democrat-and-obama-supporter-melowese-richardson-convicted-of-felony-voter-fraud/)

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

6 years is too light a sentence

[BlackTerrel]

6 years is too light a sentence

What would be appropriate?

[Warlord]

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[Warrior_of_Freedom]

What would be appropriate?

For trying to undermine our system of government? Life.

[Working Poor]

I think this was one of the most fraudulent election in my life time with the whole gop fighting against us and the dems pretending to fight the Republicans fraud was just plain built-in

Damnit to hell we should have won the gop nod we were screwed.

[Zippyjuan]

About that "one in five" figure- in many places, voter rolls haven't been updates in years- people who died or moved away are still listed-- more cases of sloppy paperwork than outright fraud:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/16/voter-rolls-in-ohio-are-bloated-experts-say.html


In February, the Pew Center on the States released a study called Inaccurate, Costly, and Inefficient showing that about 24 million U.S. voter registrations were no longer valid or had significant inaccuracies.

The research found: more than 1.8 million dead people listed as voters; about 2.75 million with voter registrations in more than one state; and about 12 million voter records with incorrect addresses, meaning either the voters moved or errors in the information make it unlikely any mailings can reach them.

The latter category is where you’ll find most of Ohio’s 1.6 million inactive voters.

“For the most part, these are individuals who have already had mail returned to the board of elections or have filed a change of address with the U.S. post office,” said Husted spokeswoman Maggie Ostrowski.

Yet they are still officially registered to vote in Ohio and can cast a ballot if they provide a valid form of identification and their signature matches the one on file. Even the 70,000 registered voters who have told the U.S. Postal Service they are moving out of state cannot be purged, Ostrowski noted. The secretary of state instead is sending each one a letter asking them to voluntarily withdraw their Ohio registration; but if they don’t, they must remain on the rolls.

Postcards are going out to about 330,000 Ohioans who filled out change-of-address forms, suggesting they update their voter registration through an online change-of-address system begun a little more than a month ago. So far, 19,000 people have used it, Ostrowski said.

Removing inactive voters from the rolls is complicated and usually takes several years. A “how to” memo last year from Husted to local elections workers stretched 23 pages.

Since taking office in January 2011, Husted has removed the names of more than 150,000 dead voters as well as hundreds of thousands of duplicate registrations, Ostrowski said. The state now gets access to records for Ohioans who die outside the state; previously, they saw only in-state death records.

He partnered with the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles to improve the state’s voter-registration database so elections workers could cross-check voter identities.

At a cost of $1.4 million, Husted also is mailing absentee-ballot applications statewide — but generally only to those on the active-voter list.

Ostrowski said elections officials figured it would be a waste of money to send them to the inactive voters because they’re likely not there to return them.


If you moved, did you notify the state election commision for where you moved from that you would no longer be voting there? Few people do. If not, then you are still on their rolls. Does that mean you are committing voter fraud?

[Original_Intent]

Vote fraud in any form should be considered treason. Not saying this lady should get the death penalty or life, but the penalties need to match the crime. If all she did was double vote, I think 6 years is reasonable, I would like to see her fined to pay for her incarceration, and of course she should never work as a poll worker again.

Some of the bigger vote fraud, the systemic stuff, the people responsible need the firing squad. Period.

[Pisces]

About that "one in five" figure- in many places, voter rolls haven't been updates in years- people who died or moved away are still listed-- more cases of sloppy paperwork than outright fraud:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/16/voter-rolls-in-ohio-are-bloated-experts-say.html

No one is saying that vote fraud is just about creating fictitious voters. Not cleaning up the voter rolls facilitates fraud by making it easy for corrupt activists to cast extra votes, just as this lady did. That is why there is so much resistance to any attempt to rectify the "sloppy paperwork".