Poll Worker, Professor Caught in Voter Fraud

Obama supporter Melowese Richardson, a 58-year-old veteran Cincinnati poll worker, was indicted on March 11, 2013, on eight counts of voter fraud. She voted twice for herself (once by absentee ballot, and once in person) in the November 2012 election, and voted  "in the name of five other people in various elections," according to Hamilton County prosecutors. If convicted, she could get up to 12 years in prison.

Prosecutors also reported that 54-year-old nun and college professor, Sister Marguerite Kloos, has pled guilty to one count of illegal voting for a deceased fellow nun.

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.

Investigations continue on other cases of possible voter fraud.