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Whichever side of this issue one may decide to take, it is important to know and understand both points of view. There has been no shortage of evidence that supports the existence of voter fraud at the election polls. This evidence goes back no further than the 2012 Presidential Election. Earlier in 2013, Obama supporter and Cincinnati poll worker Melowese Richardson was indicted and convicted for voting at least six times. She also was charged with illegal voting in 2008 and 2011. In a story reported on FoxNews.com, Richardson was quoted as saying, "Yes, I voted twice." She also went on to proclaim, "I'll fight it for Mr. Obama and Mr. Obama's right to sit as President of the United States." Officials charged that she voted in her own name by absentee ballot and also in person at the polls, as well as voting in the name of five other people in various elections. Prosecutors say the five other people for whom Richardson cast ballots are all relatives. Richardson was sentenced to 5 years in prison. .
The same story also reports of other fraudulent activity at the Cincinnati voting polls. Sister Marguerite Kloos was convicted on one count of illegal voting, for submitting an absentee ballot in the name of a fellow nun, Sister Rose Marie Hewitt, who had died before absentee ballots were sent out. She was accused of opening Sister Hewitt's ballot, forging her signature and mailing it to the Board of Elections as a vote. Russell Glassop, 75, also was charged with illegal voting. He was accused of voting on behalf of his wife, who died before election day. These are all concrete examples of how vulnerable and unsecure our voting system is. In an ABC News online report, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted acknowledged that "voter fraud does exist." He also went on to say, "But it is not an epidemic.".
Another problem lies within voter registration.