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.

Strange Voting Patterns

Investor's Business Daily editors pulled together just a few of the strange voting patterns spotted on election day in states with no voter ID requirements.

Pennsylvania — a state where a judge blocked a voter ID law for 2012 and "where 75 legal and credentialed GOP election workers were blocked or removed from the polls" — had 59 Philadelphia voting divisions report Obama 19,605 votes, Romney 0 votes.

The Obama Justice Department might not be concerned about that, but one man who studies voting patterns is dubious. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato told the Philadelphia Inquirer that it deserves scrutiny. "Not a single vote for Romney or even an error?" he asked. "That's worth looking into."

Ohio — Romney faced a similar shutout in 9 districts in Cuyahoga County "where he did even worse than the third-party candidates."

Seem impossible? Yes, it does. And that's not just our opinion. Rich Exner, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's data analysis editor, said he doesn't find the shutout credible.

Colorado — two counties reported more votes cast than their total voter-age populations.

York: Voter Fraud IS a Concern

The argument against Voter ID laws becomes much harder to make when 1,099 felons vote in race won by 312 ballots, as happened in the Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman. Byron York cites a new book, Who's Counting, that catalogues the whole range of voter fraud issues and maintains "the integrity of the ballot box is just as important to the credibility of elections as access to it."

Hayward: Voter ID and the Diluted Franchise

Why does a cybernetic info-society tolerate ridiculous amounts of voter fraud?, asks John Hayward at Human Events, after the Justice Department shot down South Carolina's voter ID law last month. "The Left deserves a measure of grudging admiration for convincing Information Age America to hold its elections in 1965, even as they conduct their daily affairs with 21st-century speed and accuracy ... especially since those elections are, increasingly, the only real control we have over vast swathes of our nationalized, hyper-regulated lives."