Two Votes, One Lame Excuse
The story of the Milwaukee woman who voted twice and then turned herself in has me conflicted. Her name is Edna Byrd, 51 years old, and she admits she voted absentee days before the election and then showed up on Election Day. She was given a ballot and voted again.
She committed a felony. Do you charge her, or not?
In her interview with Channel 12 she seems like a nice enough woman, but she broke the law.
http://www.wisn.com/video/17959899/index.html
And I don’t believe her reason for one minute: I was trying to test the system.
Maybe she should be charged just because she couldn’t come up with a better excuse. It sure wouldn’t fly in any other felony case:
Judge, I murdered my wife just to see if I could get away with it--just to see if the system would catch me.
Your Honor, I broke into a neighbor’s home and stole 10-grand in jewelry just to see if the system worked. I just really wanted to know how good the Waukesha detectives were, sir.
This is just conjecture, but I believe what we have here is a woman who was an overzealous Obama supporter. She really, really wanted Obama to win, and she thought she’d found a way to vote twice. Then she had an attack of conscience or realized hey, they can track me, so she turned herself in and came up with the I was testing the system excuse.
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