Posted on 04/02/2006 9:54:42 AM PDT by rface
A circuit judge in St. Louis has sentenced a woman who turned in voter registration cards in the name of dead local politicians to probation, community service and relaxation training using transcendental meditation.
Michelle Robinson, 36, pleaded guilty Friday on charges of 13 violations of election law and of possession of crack cocaine and a crack pipe.
Robinson worked for a campaign called Operation Big Vote that aimed to boost the participation of black voters in the 2001 St. Louis mayoral election. But some of the cards she turned in on Feb. 7, 2001, were made out in the names of several dead former city aldermen, triggering state and federal criminal investigations.
Robinson admitted in court Friday that she had filled out 13 fraudulent cards, including ones for now-deceased Aldermen Albert "Red" Villa and Nellene Joyce, whose daughter is a St. Louis circuit attorney.
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Last year, a St. Louis jury found the head of Big Vote guilty of lying to a grand jury during the investigation. The jury found that Nonaresa Montgomery lied when she told grand jurors that she had no way of tracking the cards that Big Vote turned in, many of which contained made-up names and nonexistent addresses or had been were filled out several times for the same person.
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Horrible karma.
I guess the transcendental meditation is supposed to help her overcome the harshness of her community service hours.
It figures!
vote fraud = treason lite
This sends a very strong message "FIRST TIME OFFENDERS OF ELECTION FRAUD WILL GET NO PUNISHMENT" (unless you are a republican)
Cruel and unusual. Sounds good to me.
Hmmm, probation and/or meditation for organized crime and narcotics....THAT'LL deter felony vote fraud, big time! Case solved, this house is clean!! /s
I hope not on the taxpayers' dime? TM is pretty expensive, I think.
Last year, a St. Louis jury found the head of Big Vote guilty of lying to a grand jury during the investigation.
Where is the jail time?
TM is religious. Where is the ACLU protesting this violation of church and state?
Oh wait, she was stealing votes for Rats. Nevermind.
I propose the death penalty for vote fraud. Nothing goes against the foundation of America more than this.
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