To tell the truth, I expected the Dems to arrange to have her vote whatever way they wanted in absentia. Evidently that isn’t working out for some reason.
I looked up the writer, and he appears to be a liberal.
Here’s his web page at Youngstown:
http://class.ysu.edu/~polisci/sracic.html
Doesn't work that way. Congressman can't vote by proxy, they have to be there in person, no matter what condition they are in. Senator Claire Eagle of California was terminally ill with brain cancer and couldn't speak hen he was wheeled from the hospital to appear in the Senate chamber and cast a tie-breaking vote for closure on the 1964 civil rights act.
It's obvious that she cannot comprehend or communicate enought to even minimally understand the bills, issues, or what she's voting on. Any vote would be cast for her and that won't fly, it's illegal. So the Rats are stuck with one vote always uncast. They want it back.
I think you have to be present to vote. No absetia