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   A Shorewood man has been charged with more than a dozen counts of illegal voting, accused of casting multiple ballots in four elections in 2011 and 2012, including five in the 2012 gubernatorial recall. 
   
   Robert D. Monroe, 50, used addresses in Shorewood, Milwaukee and Indiana, according to the complaint, and cast some votes in the names of his son and his girlfriend's son. 
   
   According to the complaint: 
   
   Monroe cast two ballots in the April 2011 Supreme Court election, two in the August 2011 Alberta Darling recall election, five in the Scott Walker-Tom Barrett recall, one illegal ballot in an August 2012 primary, and two ballots in the November 2012 presidential election. 
   
   In the presidential election, Monroe cast an in-person absentee ballot in Shorewood on Nov. 1 and drove a rental car to Lebanon, Ind., where he showed his Indiana driver's license to vote in person on election day, Nov. 6, the complaint charges. Monroe owns a house there, according to the complaint. 
   
   The 26-page criminal complaint was filed Friday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court and is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, one of the prosecutors involved in the John Doe investigations of Gov. Scott Walker's staff when he was county executive and the now-halted probe into fundraising by Walker's gubernatorial campaign. 
   
   The complaint indicates the investigation started in Waukesha County as an inquiry into possible double voting by Monroe's son, who lives in Waukesha. But the son denied any knowledge of requesting an absentee ballot from his father's Shorewood address, and the investigation shifted back to Milwaukee County. 
   
   It then proceeded, in part, as it related to yet another John Doe investigation apparently unrelated to Walker, records of which were recently ordered unsealed, according to the complaint. 
   
   The complaint says investigators went as far as testing absentee ballot envelopes, supposedly sent by other people, to find only Monroe's DNA, and no DNA of the voters allegedly casting the votes. 
   
   It includes text messages between Monroe and his ex-wife, sons and brother, strongly urging them to vote. One text May 23, 2012, to a son reads, "You must go to city hall and register to vote. Every vote will be needed!... Please please please." 
   
   The complaint refers to Monroe as an executive within the health care industry who earned a master's degree in business administration at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013. 
   
   "He has expressed an interest in attending law school," the complaint reads. 
   
   Monroe faces various counts of election fraud, including registering in more than one place, providing false information to an election official, voting more than once and voting as a disqualified person, for a total 13 felony charges. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of up to 18 months in prison, two years of extended supervision and a $10,000 fine. 
   
   Monroe is not in custody, and his initial court appearance is scheduled for July 17. 
   
   Monroe is represented by Milwaukee attorneys Franklyn Gimbel and Steven McGaver. Gimbel declined to comment about the matter or his client Tuesday. 
   
   "We have some strategies we're not looking to disclose at this time," he said. ||||| A Shorewood man has been charged with voting multiple times in multiple elections. 
   
   
   
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   Robert Monroe is a health insurance executive and on his LinkedIn page boasts, "I love the thrill of the hunt, leading teams and developing new business." 
   
   
   
   Milwaukee prosecutors said he takes the lead in the number of multiple votes cast. He's charged with voting illegally at least a dozen times using relatives' names and addresses. 
   
   
   
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   According to the complaint, the investigation started in Waukesha, where investigators wanted to know why Monroe's son had both voted in Waukesha and applied for an absentee ballot at the Shorewood Village Hall. 
   
   
   
   Police questioned Monroe's son about the Shorewood absentee voter application. The son said he'd never seen it. Suspicion then turned to his dad since it listed his father's address. 
   
   
   
   Shorewood's clerk said the state uses a computer system to detect duplicate voters. 
   
   
   
   "You can register in one community and vote once. If you try to register in another community, we will catch it," Shorewood clerk Sherry Grant said. 
   
   
   
   While there's no way to know whom he voted for, WISN 12 News has learned Monroe donated money to state Sen. Alberta Darling. Prosecutors said he voted twice in Darling's 2011 recall election, five times in Gov. Scott Walker's recall election and once in another state. 
   
   
   
   Prosecutors tracked Monroe's cellphone to show he voted in Wisconsin and Indiana in the November 2012 presidential election, and they tested absentee ballots to identify Monroe's DNA. 
   
   
   
   Investigators said Monroe told them he doesn't remember the elections and that drugs he takes for Attention Deficit and Obsessive Compulsive disorders often leave him in a blurred mental state. 
   
   
   
   Monroe will make his first court appearance in July. 
   
  
target: – How convinced may Robert Monroe have been that his vote in the 2012 presidential election mattered? So much so that the Wisconsin man allegedly cast an in-person absentee ballot in Shorewood on Nov. 1 then rented a car and drove some 250 miles to Lebanon, Ind., five days later, using his driver's license from that state (he owns a home there) to do so. And that's not all: When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker faced a recall vote, Monroe voted five times, per a criminal complaint filed Friday. The 50-year-old has been charged with voter fraud after allegedly voting multiple times in a series of elections, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. He also allegedly voted multiple times in contests in April and August 2011 and illegally voted in a 2012 primary. In order to reach their conclusions, investigators tested DNA on absentee ballot envelopes, finding Monroe's DNA on envelopes that appeared to be from others; the complaint says he cast votes under his son's name and that of his girlfriend's son. Each of his 13 felony charges carries up to 18 months in prison. Monroe has claimed that he has no memory of the elections, and that his Attention Deficit and Obsessive Compulsive medications weaken his mental sharpness, WISN reports. No word on who he voted for, though he donated to a Republican state senator ... and allegedly voted twice in her recall election.