New York Times: It’s OK To ‘Help’ Your Mentally Incapacitated Relatives Complete Their Ballots

The Federalist ^ | 09/12/2024 | Logan Washburn

[Da Coyote]

Does that mean that we can help a journalism major?

[mkmensinger]

So I guess it’s OK for Dr Jill to help Joe vote.

[Jamestown1630]

Good Grief.

Would the woman even know if she voted or not?

[Trot]

But I don’t want my democrat relatives to vote.

[FreedBird]

These people think they are running the Soviet Union now.

[CivilWarBrewing]

KommieLa desperately needs the NURSING HOME vote.

[mass55th]

The Slimes is talking about their mentally incapacitated relatives who work for the Slimes.

[Kudsman]

Funny thing is I visit two Nusing homes and one 35 unit elder housing complex 5 days a week. I wonder the last time she has done so.

[stanne]

Does he mean the Trump hating idiots in my family and friends? All the New Yorkers?

[SpaceBar]

It is illegal to vote for someone else for any reason.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

There is NOTHING the DemocRATS won’t do to win. There is little the Republicans WILL do to win.

[17th Miss Regt]

But I don’t want my democrat relatives to vote.

Then help them fill out their ballots. You can accidentally spoil it in the process.

[silent majority rising]

Sure. You can let them drive your semi also. And maybe serve as a Law Enforcement Officer.

[SamuraiScot]

“When the situation is hazy, my inclination would be to err on the side of helping someone to vote, because voting is such a central form of civic participation,” wrote the Times’ “Ethicist” Columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah. . .

What he describes (interpreting the will of a voter who lacks the mental capacity to express it) is illegal under Election law in--as far as I know--all states in the U.S.

Are these "Affikan Efficks?" They're certainly not American.

[dadfly]

evil question. evil answer.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“”””“When the situation is hazy, my inclination would be to err on the side of helping someone to vote, because voting is such a central form of civic participation,””””

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What a bunch of BS. Most states have laws that those deemed incompetent cannot vote.

Just because an incompetent person who has not been deemed incompetent does not mean that someone else can vote for them.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Flaming Conservative]

That “ethicist” is unethical.

[kiryandil]

Say what?