Posted on 11/07/2005 7:11:10 AM PST by Mikey_1962
With one week until Election Day a new investigation raised questions about voting practices in Detroit. Part of it involves absentee ballots and who is casting them.
87-year-old Charles Allen is legally incapacitated from Dementia and Alzheimer’s, but he still cast an absentee ballot in the August primary.
7 Action News cameras filmed as a hospital worker asked him who he voted for and who the mayor of Detroit was. Allen couldn’t remember.
According to a Detroit News investigation, Allen is one of 7 residents at a nursing home in Detroit who is legally incapacitated but still voted in the primary.
Nursing home owner Gena Payne said election workers come to the home and sit in a private room with residents to help them fill out absentee ballots.
"I wonder about the whole thing. Really how many people really know who they’re voting for?" said Payne.
City clerk Jackie Currie said the Detroit News is just trying to sell news papers.
"I really don’t know and I’m going to go to that nursing home. Because I believe in checking things out for myself," said Currie.
The newspaper said its investigation also found incorrect voter names and addresses, official primary results turned in several days late and dozens of ballot irregularities.
"We do the best we can here. We’re not perfect, but guess what? We’re 95% perfect and that’s close enough," said Currie.
One Detroit voter said her absentee ballot was already filled out when it arrived in the mail.
The votes were cast for Kwame Kilpatrick for mayor and Jackie Currie for city clerk.
At first Currie said she had no idea, "Who told you that? Then let me check that out. Did they leave the names? And I’ll certainly will go over there and see."
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"87-year-old Charles Allen is legally incapacitated from Dementia and Alzheimer’s, but he still cast an absentee ballot in the August primary."
I'm guessing he voted democrat.
You have no choice but to vote democrat in Detroit.
Republican need not apply.
The amazing thisg is that Curry will probably win her own re-election.
Talk about bottom of the barrel. Kid Kwami and his New Faluja are really something to behold. Not. The wailing and spitting increase as the spotlight grows more intense. Poor little dears.
Detroit could boil over again under such 'leadership'. And Dearborn's just next door.
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