Illegal voter sentenced

[KevDen2005]

Didn't see this on here yet

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130717/NEWS0107/307170089/Illegal-voter-gets-5-year-prison-term

Calling her a common criminal who abused her authority as a poll worker by violating the principle of “one person, one vote,” a judge sent Melowese Richardson to prison Wednesday for five years following her illegal voting conviction.
“This is not a little thing. It’s not a minor thing. This is what our country’s based on – free elections,” Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Ruehlman told Richardson.
In a case watched around the country, Richardson was a Hamilton County poll worker from 1998 until her arrest earlier this year when she was charged with eight counts of illegal voting. In May, she accepted a plea deal and was convicted of four counts in exchange for the other four being dismissed.
She was convicted of voting twice in the 2012 election and voting three times – in 2008, 2011 and 2012 – for her sister, Montez Richardson, who has been in a coma since 2003.
Richardson told the judge she was bothered that Amy Searcy, the Board of Elections director, had criticized her moments before the sentencing. Richardson, 58, of Madisonville, said for years she helped register Democrats to vote but now was being persecuted despite her decades as a poll worker.

[Inconel710]

And she still doesn't see what she did as wrong. Go figure.

[SuperiorDG]

And she still doesn't see what she did as wrong. Go figure.

I'm sure its the same with those IRS employees.

[Dave]

Wait until we see how the same day voter registration works out. How many other poll workers will "register" people and vote for them?

[Kraven251]

heh, glad she didn't just get a wrist slap

[asmo]

Me personally I see this as more vile than 1st degree murder - and it should carry a death sentence.

[ChadAmberg]

Me personally I see this as more vile than 1st degree murder - and it should carry a death sentence.

Agreed. I've always said that ANY election fraud or corruption, be it on the part of a gov't employee, volunteer, or voter, carry at least a permanent ban from voting (with a forehead tattoo maybe?) for voters, and be a required 20 year minimum felony for gov't/volunteers.

[Ronin13]

Me personally I see this as more vile than 1st degree murder - and it should carry a death sentence.

Indeed... it certainly has farther reaching implications than just taking one life- which in turn affects probably a dozen or so- whereas in election fraud, you have the potential to affect massive areas (up to and including the entire country- as we see with the 2012 elections- which I still believe the results weren't legit).

[trlcavscout]

She got lucky with only 5 years, we have shit head for 8.

[sellersm]

She got lucky with only 5 years, we have shit head for 8.

^This.