Posted on 11/03/2012 9:22:36 AM PDT by thecodont
Jimmy Green's stepdaughter had never voted before. The 57-year-old is mentally disabled, and Green said she doesn't understand the concept of casting a ballot.
But this week, she called her parents to say she had voted for President Obama. The care home in Fayetteville where she lives registered its residents to vote and drove them to the polls, Green said.
"My concern is that somebody told her who to vote for," he said. "She didn't even know there's two different parties."
Complaints of uncomprehending voters being ferried to cast ballots surface every election. And in a presidential race as close as this year's, with huge levels of early voting, any perceived irregularity is falling under intense scrutiny.
But federal and state laws are very clear - there is no competency test for voting.
"The law specifically says that anyone with a disability is allowed to have assistance from anyone that they choose," said Terri Robertson, director of the Cumberland County Board of Elections. "As long as they can communicate to us in some way that they need assistance and who they wish to have assistance from, the law allows it."
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Aren’t ALL Democrats mentally retarded?
The only difference between this lady and most democRAT voters is that she lives in a sheltered home...
Ok, a better term - you are an ignorant jackass.
OK - so you don’t have one.
When was the last time you were in a rest home?
Three years ago when I held my father in laws hand as he passed from this world to the next
You should spend more time in one.
Time where you can look around and see how the workers treat the “clients”.
Between elections the 80 year with a mind as sharp as a tack is treated and talked to like a three year old.
Those who are feeble minded and have no relatives visiting have a food try placed in front of them only to have it collected uneaten with a “I guess Sally wasn’t hungry this morning.”
I’ve spent enough time in them to realize I do not want to end up in one - and I don’t want someone stealing my vote.
Just as a side note - our church has a relationship with a rest home in town. My daughter does the Easter Bunny, Christmas Elf bit and any hour visit easily stretches to 2 or more - the old folks just love kids “You’re just like my daughter - grand daughter, etc.”
Spending a few hours up there on Holidays you rarely see any family. So if you spent lots of time with your’s - good on you.
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