Posted on 09/18/2021 12:07:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Hannah Kauschke is excited about casting her vote — for the first time in her life, at the age of 30.
“I’m really looking forward to it,” said Kauschke, adding “they really could have given people with disabilities in Germany more rights sooner. We have our own opinions.”
For her, one of the most important topics that Germany needs to tackle is protecting the environment, especially after catastrophic floods struck the west of the country in July. Her biggest wish for the new government, she said, was “that they listen to us [with disabilities] and take us seriously.”
Kauschke works stocking shelves and sorting products at an organic supermarket in Nuremberg. Her legal guardian is her mother, who checks in on her twice a week. In Germany, legal guardians may be required to be on hand from once a week to round the clock, and usually provide assistance for bureaucratic needs and household or financial organization. […]
[Peer] Brocke, [spokesman for the organization Lebenshilfe, Germany’s largest NGO advocating for people with disabilities,] explained that smaller parties, such as the environmentalist Greens and the communist Left Party, as well the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), had voiced their support for enfranchising all German adults. “But many in the CDU stopped it from happening. The SPD said they would put a measure forward before the election in 2013, but after they entered into a coalition with the CDU, they dropped it.” …
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The new law affects tens of thousands of Germans — mostly with a range of learning disabilities, some also with physical impairments — such that they require a legal guardian, who had been barred from voting on a case-by-case basis. …Should have added this earlier.
That’s nothing!
Dead people can vote Democrat in America!
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles.
They probably do in Germany as well, but that’s kept out of the media.
The article, of course, refers only to “disabilities.” What is being referred to, I gather, is mental infirmity including retardation sufficient to have a person deemed incapable of conducting his own affairs and placed under the care of a guardian.
In the present climate, plain speaking is not permitted.
That said, I don’t know what the rules are in the U.S. Do we have classes of mentally disabled people who are barred from voting? Do guardians or caregivers routinely vote for them? I know that the democrats have long raced to nursing homes to get semi-sentient people voted absentee, but I really don’t know how the rules are spelled out in detail.
I live by Philly, and I’ve seen tons of retards voting...
Yeah, Dims take all pts in the disablity homes to the voting station, and help them.
So some of them require guardians around the clock? That would include the polling place, I presume.
What could possibly go wrong???
That’s nothing ... we vote them into office here.
The mentally disabled have already been voting.
Gets better. Democrats can motivate masses of people who don’t even exist to vote for their causes and candidates.
81 million mentally handicapped voters here last November....
. . . many of whom do not exist.
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