A letter to Dear Abby shortly after the 2000 elections expressed a former employee's concerns about various groups who make a habit of going into nursing homes and filling out absentee ballots for patients suffering from dementia, patients who have no clue who they are, much less whom they would choose to run the country. And these people are voting for them,
The employee was especially distressed at hearing the women laugh after "voting" for a comatose patient they knew would have voted differently.
I would love to see some FReeper set up some kind of surveillance camera and catch these women in the act.
Considering the population of nursing homes across the country, hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes could be cast in every major election, with no one the wiser.