Student Admits to Voting Twice
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Posted: 9:27 AM Jul 16, 2008
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ATHENS, Ohio (WSAZ)-An Ohio University student has admitted to voting twice in the March Primary.

21-year old Carolyn Kleinhert pleaded guilty to felony election falsification in Athens County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday.

Prosecutors say the Hudson, Ohio native got an issues only absentee ballot from her home county of Summit County and sent it in.

Then, on election day, investigators say she got a provisional ballot from Athens County to vote in the Democratic primary and told elections officials she never got the absentee ballot from Summit County.

Kleinhert was sentenced to participate in the Prosecutor's Diversion Program.

She had faced the possibility of 6 to 12 months behind bars.
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Posted by: mimi on Nov 8, 2008 at 07:40 AM
We should follow the rules!please cheked true ecorn
Posted by: annonymous on Nov 2, 2008 at 05:43 PM
The RNC is currently using this as a smear / fear campaign to try and prove "voter fraud". http://www.gop.com/Ohio.htm This is just another example of immature, but effective “scare tactics” that the GOP has used very effectively in the 2004 election, and is now trying to use in the 2008 elections. This is ridiculous, but so is the charge. The election laws for college students are very confusing, many people are told that they can get a provisional / absentee ballot from their home, but are also told from their school that they can vote from where they live. I personally can see how a student could be legitimately confused by these instructions. I don't know what all the fuss / fallout is about. I also think it is ridiculous that this 21 year old girl now has a felony. No one will hire her, she will not be able to have a job, her life is over because of this. For me this is horribly disturbing, it should be for the rest of you.
Posted by: Anonymous on Jul 20, 2008 at 05:07 PM
This is the stupid thing I have read today. A man shot and killed a friend I worked with during a botched robbery last Feb. and I walk into one of my classes when the next semester started and there he sat. Why can he be free to do what he wants but they want to charge this girl for such a ridiculous crime. She must have voted for Hillary otherwise it wouldn't have been a problem!!!
Posted by: you are a moron on Jul 17, 2008 at 02:12 PM
Hey "Mr. Barleycorn", I hope you realize that your comment made no sense whatsoever..."get a chance to chance?" Maybe where you come from that makes sense. I hope you feel good about yourself telling this poor girl to "enjoy jail"...she made a simple mistake and now has to suffer for it when she was probably only trying to help out her country by voting. Hey John, enjoy being lame.
Posted by: booger on Jul 17, 2008 at 02:12 PM
Not like voting really matters anyways. WV voted for Hillary, but somehow our delegates (I refuse to call them super) still vote for Obama. She can use my vote, because I didn't vote, and will never vote again. Actually, scratch that. I'll only vote if someone I dispise is running... Like Margaret Workman. Or Pauley Shore. Then I'll vote for whatever moron is running agianst them.
Posted by: john barleycorn on Jul 17, 2008 at 01:53 PM
maybe she has two personalities and thinks it is fair if they both get a chance to chance. with any luck she voted for obama and hillary once each thus cancelling out her stupidity. enjoy jail.
Posted by: ddcj on Jul 17, 2008 at 12:08 PM
I think 6 to 12 months is a little much behind bars. Why not slap her with a big fine?
Posted by: To nope on Jul 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM
no all of the black people voted for him because their supportive but us white people who voted for hillary are just racist right. What a croc!!! Hillary Clinton should have been our next president. By the way I am not racist toward any race but think about President Obama-sounds like were talking about Afghanistan to me!!!
Posted by: Kathy on Jul 17, 2008 at 08:23 AM
I mentioned the CNN report on how many non-citzens vote in my other post. It was Lou Dobbs show last night. Link shown below. Report cited done by Heritage F'dation written by frmr mbr of Fed Election Commission concludes the 2000 presidential election & many local elections have been decided within the margin of the number of non-citizens illegally registered to vote. They get voter registration cards when they get their illegal drivers license (because THEY dont have to submit LEGAL ids to most DMVs). So they get to VOTE while driving illegally (AFTER using stolen IDS from the rest of us). Tell me THAT is right? No I don't defend this girl voting twice BUT at least she's LEGAL. They should be more worried about all these thousands who SHOULDN'T be allowed to vote period! Will they prosecute THEM? Of course not! Wouldn't want to offend them or Mexico now would we? http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/16/ldt.01.html
Posted by: r u kiddin me on Jul 17, 2008 at 08:13 AM
what a buch of bull, i understand its wrong, but to take up space in the jail when there is wife beaters, child molesters, burglars, and drug dealers walking free is crazy, what is wrong with ohio laws, and we can't even blame them on dumb a** bush because the laws have always been screwed up.
Posted by: Kathy on Jul 17, 2008 at 07:38 AM
so? this is news? do you realize how many ILLEGALS who are NOT even citizens of the United States are VOTING and HAVE been voting for YEARS in not only local and state elections, BUT they're helping to choose our Prez! Yeah, now THAT'S democracy. I believe the Constitution requires you to at least be a CITIZEN of the US but hey, this admin and almost ALL the Congress kiss their backsides and have broken about every law and rule of the Constitution so what's one more? Go ahead and vote ILLEGALS, heck vote twice. At least this girl is an American citizen! They did a report on this illegal/non-citizen thing last night on CNN which you should watch. SCARY. What has happened to the United States of America & WHY are CITIZENS of the US putting up with this? They said that the FL election mess contained a LOT of illegal immigrant votes for Bush. Imagine. BOTH McCain AND Obama are all for MORE illegals from MEXICO they're not for immigrants from any OTHER country just Mexico
Posted by: BLACKSHEEP on Jul 17, 2008 at 07:02 AM
SHE MUST BE FROM OHIO, ONLY SOMEONE FROM "OHIO" WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS. TO WEST VIRGINIAN WHY WOULD YOU DEGRADE YOUR SELF BY SAYING " SHE MUST BE FROM MINGO COUNTY" ? ARE YOU FROM "OHIO" TOO!!
Posted by: Nope on Jul 16, 2008 at 05:24 PM
No, Yup, that's not how. All of the smart people voted for him!
Posted by: Jessica on Jul 16, 2008 at 04:15 PM
This is ridiculous why would it matter if you vote once or one hundred the peoples vote doesn't count anyway. In the end it comes down to the superdelegates because if it was up to the people Hillary would be the nominee right now.
Posted by: joe on Jul 16, 2008 at 02:00 PM
how many others may have done this,too
Posted by: jessica on Jul 16, 2008 at 01:51 PM
"my sources" say shes from Fla.
Posted by: Yup on Jul 16, 2008 at 01:30 PM
Thats how Obama won the primary!
Posted by: cxs on Jul 16, 2008 at 12:51 PM
What is the Prosecutor's Diversion Program?
Posted by: West Virginian on Jul 16, 2008 at 11:45 AM
She must be from Mingo County
Posted by: cxs on Jul 16, 2008 at 10:34 AM
what??
Posted by: Tim on Jul 16, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Drunk drivers and drug dealers face less time than this....Vote twice spend a year in jail, drink and drive or be dealing drugs, spend a day in jail....the system is broke
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