Posted on 07/01/2007 9:53:44 PM PDT by Baladas
For at least 20 years, Allegheny County election workers have visited Mayview State Hospital and the four Kane Regional Centers to help patients register and vote. Advocates argue private nursing home residents -- especially those with dementia -- deserve the same attention.
Pennsylvania is one of 10 states without a mental competency requirement in its election laws, said Jennifer Mathis, a lawyer with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C.
The mentally ill in Pennsylvania gained some protections three decades ago after several legal rulings and lobbying by a state civil rights committee. But more oversight is needed to ensure the voting rights of people in nursing homes to keep them from becoming disenfranchised and to prevent criminal activity,
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
That does explain...nevermind....
Democrat party operatives in New York round up the Alzheimer’s patients and retardates in droves at their respective institutions and get them to all sign mail-in ballots for Hillary, Schumer, Spitzer, and the rest of the vermin.
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