JUST SAY NO TO DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE DEMENTED
Posted on 10/24/2004 9:01:07 PM PDT by I'mPeach
As the hunt for every last vote intensifies, one question is being quietly debated in medical circles that may have an impact on this year's election:
Should people with dementia be allowed to vote?
In California, Democratic activists have filed suit against a veterans' hospital whose officials, they say, prohibited them from talking to residents on the grounds that they have dementia and were therefore incompetent to vote.
In Mobile, Ala., the district attorney fielded complaints this summer that mentally incompetent residents of a nursing home were allowed to vote in a municipal election.
And in South Carolina, state Democrats held a new primary after a state senator complained of voting fraud with absentee ballots of people in nursing homes with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
It's not known how many people with dementia actually vote, although recent studies in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island found that residents from dementia clinics voted in higher numbers than the population at large. Nationally, 4.5 million people are estimated to have dementia, while in Pennsylvania, those with Alzheimer's -- the most common form of dementia -- is estimated at 285,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
For those with Deanmentia I can see where voting would be a problem.
However, if it involves votes being cast for them, without their conscious participation, then someone needs to go to prison.
Can't touch this.
That headline is offensive to people who can't understand it
Why not?
I have been writing about this. The DemocRATS have been in nursing homes and mental institutions trolling for votes. How many absentee ballots they will control is anyone's guess.
Yes, but Help is on the Way (now where have I heard that before?
Well, see, I just assumed they were looking for it in people who wanted to register Democrat...and an absolute necessity for those who were seeking higher office.
I will give you an answer. My grandmother has Alzheimers and she was once president of her Republican Women's Club. Somehow, when it came out that Henry Hyde and whoever else had committed adultery along with Clinton, she just turned her back on the party she had supported her whole life (no one knew she had Alzheimer's back then). She is now in a home for patients like herself, but is lucid enough to vote. She forgets a lot of things but somehow not that she is mad at Republicans.
YeeeeHAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Why not?
Because Republicans would rather loose than be called "mean" or "rascist".
This is not a problem. The SEIU aides help demented patients in all aspects of their needs.
VOTE DEMENTIACRAT
If a patient has the metal capacity to, out of his own volition and free will, ask for an absentee ballot, there is no reason for not allowing him to vote.
However, if a third party approaches a patient that has an altered mental status for the purpose of executing a legal document such as a change in a will, a treatment consent form or a voting ballot, then such a document is legally invalid.
Lautenberg was allowed to vote for himself.
Who decides if someone has dementia? What are the procedures?
If people with dementia are prevented from voting, you're talking about potentially disenfranchising at least half the Democrat base.
Works for me. :^)
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