An Ohio man who cast an illegal early ballot after being caught registering to vote several times with ACORN is a longtime scammer who was arrested last year for fraud – as a woman.
The bizarre tale of Darnell Nash – a k a Serina “Sexy Slay” Gibbs – came to light after Cuyahoga County officials accused him of voter fraud and this week turned him/her in to prosecutors.
It turns out Nash, 24, who has a criminal record as a man, is a transsexual escort who claims to make $150 an hour turning tricks as the self-proclaimed “Queen of Cleveland Gender Benders.”
Last month, Nash – working as “Sexy Slay” – was busted for scamming local college students in a fake loan-program scheme that allowed him access to the kids’ checking accounts. His plot was exposed by Cleveland’s Channel 19 Action News.
Just months earlier, Nash had caught the attention of election workers after he submitted multiple voter registration cards – using somebody else’s address – through ACORN canvassers.
Election officials told him to stop registering. But he apparently ignored the warning.
On Sept. 30, officials said, Nash showed up at the election offices and reregistered to vote, again using a phony address. He then cast a ballot.
Eagle-eyed election workers recognized Nash’s name and flagged his paper ballot.
On Monday, the election board said the vote would be tossed – and the case is now in the hands of local prosecutors.
ACORN, a left-leaning group whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, has come under fire this year for its voter drives.
Also today, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox charged ACORN canvasser Antonio Johnson, 23, with six counts of forgery after he allegedly turned in bogus voter-registration cards.
Johnson is accused of filling out, signing and submitting six voter applications, using names of local residents without their knowledge.