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Double-Voting for Obama

Matthew Vadum

My piece from the Feb. 13, 2013, issue of FrontPage Magazine: Double-Voting for Obama By Matthew Vadum After publicly boasting that she voted twice for President Obama in November, a left-wing Ohio activist associated with a George Soros-funded group claims she did nothing wrong by double-voting. “There’s absolutely no intent on my part to commit voter fraud,” said Melowese Richardson, a longtime Cincinnati poll worker and Democratic activist whose unlawfully cast ballot canceled out a lawful ballot and thereby deprived another citizen of his or her right to vote. Voter fraud, also known as vote fraud, election fraud, and electoral fraud, refers to the … Continue reading Double-Voting for Obama

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Voter Fraud Redefined

Matthew Vadum

Here’s my November 8, 2012 column from American Thinker: Voter Fraud Redefined By Matthew Vadum Voter fraud ain’t what it used to be. Left-wingers have been deliberately dumbing down the definition for years. In all my years as a journalist covering American politics, I have understood that voter fraud, a phrase coined by lawyers, was a blanket term that refers to a host of election-related offenses.  Lawyers frequently make up terms for specialty areas — for example, elder law, environmental law, probate law, and wrongful dismissal law. Voter fraud, also known as vote fraud, election fraud, and electoral fraud, refers to the … Continue reading Voter Fraud Redefined

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Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud

Matthew Vadum

The NAACP is trying to outdo ACORN in the realm of voter fraud. While Stephen Colbert was busy mocking Republicans and this writer for daring to think voter fraud is a serious problem, NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers was sitting in jail, sentenced to five years imprisonment for 10 counts of voter fraud. And this wasn’t just voter registration fraud, one of the most common forms of voter fraud. Sowers cast ballots in the names of 10 actual people, four of whom were dead at the time. All is revealed in a just-published article I wrote for The Daily Caller. Of … Continue reading Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud