Ohio Poll Worker Who Admitted to Voting for Obama Twice May Have Actually Cast a Total of 6 Ballots
The Ohio woman who cheerily admitted to voting twice for President Barack Obama, is under investigation into whether she cast a whopping total of six ballots.
Melowese Richardson of Madisonville, Ohio admitted to Cincinnati’s WCPO-TV
earlier this month that she mailed in an absentee ballot, but also cast
her vote at the polls because she feared it wouldn’t be counted. She
said she did it to “fight” for “Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of
the United States.”
“Yes I voted twice,” Richardson, a
longtime poll worker, told WCPO. “I, after registering thousands and
thousands of people, certainly wanted my vote to count, so I voted. I
voted at the polls.”
She told the station she had
“absolutely no intent” to commit voter fraud — even though she also
admitted to sending in her granddaughter’s ballot, and that three other
ballots, all received at the same time and containing similar handwriting, came from her home as well.
“It appears she not only attempted to
vote more than once, but was actually successful at it and having those
additional votes counted,” Ohio Secretary of State John Husted, who runs
the state’s elections, told Fox News.
“She appears to have used her position as a poll worker to cover her
tracks. That would be someone who is an official in the elections
process, using that position to commit a fraud.”
Richardson defended the other ballots
sent from her house, telling WCPO some of those voters — Montez
Richardson, Joseph Jones and Markus Barron — actually live in her home
and that they were all legal votes.
“Markus Barron lives here. Joseph Jones
is my brother. He’s here from time-to-time. I am Montez’s
power-of-attorney. I voted for her in her absence,” she said.
Efforts by TheBlaze to contact Richardson were unsuccessful.
Hers is one of 19 cases of possible voter fraud in Hamilton County in the last election.
“When I find issues like this, I know that it undermines voter confidence in our elections, and we must pursue it,” Husted said.
