MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee woman who voted twice in the presidential election said she will not be prosecuted.

Woman Votes Twice

Edna Byrd voted by absentee ballot before the Nov. 4 election and says she was curious whether she'd be allowed to vote again on Election Day.

She said she figured workers would turn her away or the machine wouldn't accept her ballot. She said she was shocked when she was allowed to vote a second time for President-elect Barack Obama.

An e-mail obtained by The Associated Press under the open records law shows Byrd turned herself in to the Government Accountability Board afterward.

"By me actually putting this ballot in and allowing me to do this, I said, 'Somebody needs to know about this because there's a problem with that,'" Byrd told 12 News reporter Marianne Lyles.

Byrd said she met with prosecutors and was told she wouldn't be charged since she turned herself in before polls closed. She said she doesn't know whether both votes counted.

A Milwaukee County prosecutor did not immediately return a call for comment.