Posted on 04/01/2014 3:53:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
Melowese Richardson is the poster girl for vote fraud.
The Ohio poll worker was sentenced last July to five years in prison after being convicted of voting twice in the 2012 election and voting three times — in 2008, 2011 and 2012 — in the name of her sister, in a coma since 2003, according to USA today.
This might be below Chicago graveyard standards, but it’s still impressive. Ms. Richardson has become a heroine to the Left, which is working with its legal arm – the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) – to kill voter photo ID laws in order to ensure that creative voting continues.
“Richardson was previously convicted of threatening to kill a witness in a criminal case against her brother; of stealing; of drunken driving; and of beating someone in a bar fight,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. When sentenced for vote fraud, she was unbowed, claiming to be a victim of racism.
Assistant prosecutor Bill Anderson, however, saw it differently: "(She) is an ideologue who was hell bent on stuffing the ballot box with as many Obama votes as possible."
So, you have a problem with that? The Rev. Al Sharpton doesn’t. He and Ohio Democrats hailed Ms. Richardson at a March 20 rally in Cincinnati following her release after serving eight months of her five-year term for voter fraud.
“There is a growing toxic movement in some corners of the country that are perfectly willing to accept criminal acts in the election and furtherance of a broader progressive agenda," former DOJ Voting Section attorney J. Christian Adams said during a March 25 interview on “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.
"There is … this corrupt attitude that is beginning to gain total acceptance in some corners of government and academia, that accepts criminality in American elections in the name of payback time.”
Mr. Adams was among DOJ staff during the Bush Administration who investigated vote fraud and intimidation in Mississippi, where the white power structure oppressed black citizens for decades, followed by corrupt, racist black political machines.
In his book Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, Mr. Adams recalls Democratic operatives in Noxubee County who “visited black voters who had requested absentee ballots on the day the ballot arrived in the mail. Sometimes the operatives snatched the ballot out of the mailbox before the voter knew it arrived. Other times, ballots were sent to black residents who hadn’t even requested them….” At the polls, “assistors” hounded people, telling them how to vote.
Last fall, Mr. Adams and his former Voting Section boss, Christopher Coates, won two consent decrees on behalf of the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) from two Mississippi counties – Walthall and Jefferson Davis – in the first privately filed lawsuits under the National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter). The counties, which have more registered voters than eligible residents, agreed to clean up their rolls. The ACRU has since filed similar suits in two Texas counties – Terrell and Zavala.
Back in Ohio, along with Ms. Richardson, the vote fraud dragnet snagged a nun, Sister Marguerite Kloos, 55, of Delhi Township. A dean at the College of Mount Saint Joseph, she lost her job and was placed on probation, according to USA Today. There was also Russell Glassop, 76, of Symmes Township, who got probation for sending in his deceased wife’s absentee ballot in 2012.
A new report from Heritage Foundation scholars Hans von Spakovsky and Peter McGinley provides more recent examples of vote fraud:
To all of this, the George Soros-funded Brennan Center at New York University, the Left’s election think tank, has a uniform answer: There are so few prosecuted cases of vote fraud out of millions of ballots cast that it makes no difference.
That’s like saying “there’s nothing to see here” if a home in a 1,000-unit residential development is burglarized. “After all, 99.9 percent of the homes were not robbed.” Every fraudulent vote steals a legitimately cast ballot.
A recent Rasmussen poll of “Likely U.S. Voters” shows that 78 percent favor voter ID laws that include proof of U.S. citizenship, with only 19 percent opposing that requirement. Other polls show broad support for voter photo ID, regardless of race or party.
When someone like poll worker Melowese Richardson is feted after being convicted of fraud, it strikes at the heart of election integrity – and self-government.
She’ll probably turn up next in Chicago, where she could go beyond poll work and get herself elected to something or other.
bttt
About time to hear from O’Keefe again.
The Ohio poll worker was sentenced last July to five years in prison after being convicted of voting twice in the 2012 election and voting three times — in 2008, 2011 and 2012 — in the name of her sister, in a coma since 2003, according to USA today.
Should be grounds for a treason charge for undermining the very system of democratic election process!!!!
Blind fold, cigarette, and Bullet, in that order!
Voting Fraud to this extent is TREASON!
Treat voter fraud as treason and get busy. Stuff a ballot box and get the death penalty with no appeal.
That’s a start.
Beat me to it.
i.e."What difference does it make?"
If they are not going to enforce voting fraud laws, why should they enforce ANY laws including tax laws.....
The rule of Law is totally broken...
I CAN’T STAND IT! That somone would actually come out in support of a flagrant fraudster DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!!!! Lord help me!
You didn’t notice the sarcasm in the title?
Blatant Voter Fraud should be prosecuted as Treason and a felony at the least....
I think one of the penalties of Blatant Voter Fround should be Death via a Treason Conviction or at the very least Permanent Deportation!
Literally all of the vote rigging and ballot stuffing is being practiced in democrat controlled precincts by democrat operatives. There’s a simple explanation for that. Once the takers realize they can get other peoples money by voting for democrats who will re-distribute it, they stop at nothing to elect more democrats.
One person, one fair vote. Anyone who doesn’t value that has no business ever being allowed to vote.
> The rule of Law is totally broken
Except when they ild it and you are the target.
> The rule of Law is totally broken
Except when they wield it and you are the target.
“The rule of law is totally broken...”
Yup.
There are revolutionaries running around all over the place and they’re laughing their backsides off.
Not only that, a significant part of the electorate loves it.
IMHO
Do not forget that in the 2012 elections, 39 Cincinnati police officers voted in the wrong districts. They were reprimanded verbally, and this is not considered voter fraud as that was not their intent. They only voted once. But, you can see how easy it is to vote in the incorrect precinct.
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