I don’t know about states other than Wisconsin, but in Wisconsin anyone can go to the Wisconsin registration website and put in anyone’s name, birthdate, and address and then see their voting record (not the vote itself, but whether that person voted in past elections.)
If you live in Wisconsin and have an elderly relative who was either too cognitively impaired to vote, or who just didn’t want to vote at all, try putting their info into the registration site and see if they voted.
I’ll tell you this much. A lot more of them ended up with absentee ballots this time around than in previous elections, whether they wanted them or not.
In other words, what happened at that single nursing home in Racine probably happened all over the state. And if the cognitively-impaired had their votes cast illegally, who is to say that didn’t also happen to many of the other residents in those homes? Or how many were heavily influenced by the person helping to fill out the ballot?
So, if you live in WI and have someone you can check on, try it and see what you learn.
You’re right. And the Election Commission sent out absentee ballot application to everyone with a pulse and then some before the rules were clear about declaring reasons for needing to vote from “home.” Because of Corona, the rules were disregarded at the discretion of handlers down the line - not the legislature as supposedly required by law. And once this is done, untangling the mess is plain impossible, especially with lawyers peppered all around.