Her first vote put her in prison - Wisconsin

[maddezmom]

Her first vote put her in prison
Woman is one of five from city convicted of voter fraud
By BILL GLAUBER
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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.

more:http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=608187

[sam sarrha]

1. it worked ..she and lots and lots of other poor people will be toooo afraid to vote now..

[ninkasi]

2. Will somebody please remind me

what penalty Ann Coulter paid for knowingly using the wrong address on her Florida voter registration? Oh, wait...a buddy in the FBI helped her out there. Never mind. It's probably the same standard which allowed Limbaugh to go into drug rehab, instead of jail, for his drug use. Different political parties, different standards.