Her first vote put her in prison
Woman is one of five from city convicted of voter fraud
By BILL GLAUBER
bglauber@journalsentinel.com
Posted: May 21, 2007
Union Grove - Kimberly Prude is 43, a grandmother of three and the face of voter fraud in Wisconsin.
The first vote she cast in her life, in the 2004 presidential election, landed her in the middle of a political storm and put her on a road to a two-year sentence inside the Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center.
"At this point, I'm not interested in voting," Prude said last week in a measured voice as she sat in a spare meeting room at the minimum security prison.
It was her first interview since her conviction in September 2005. She wore a gray T-shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes. She smiled and appeared comfortable discussing her life in prison, where she earns 26 cents an hour as a cleaner in the kitchen and is studying to complete a high school equivalency diploma.
On advice of her attorney, she declined to discuss the case, which is on appeal.
How Prude got from the streets of Milwaukee to a prison in Racine County is now the stuff of American political history.
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