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Democrat Voter Fraud: Jerry Davich: Should a person with dementia be allowed to vote?
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Oct 28, 2012, 7:06:40 PM10/28/12
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The 75-year-old woman struggled with dementia, for years not even
recognizing her own family when they visited her nursing home.
She also couldn�t write legibly, let alone sign her name or decipher which
political candidate to vote for in last year�s municipal election.
Yet when her family went to place their vote at the polling place last
November, on Election Day, the register log showed the woman�s name and a
red mark on it, stamped at the Lake County Government Center.
Somehow, shockingly, she had voted by absentee ballot in a Merrillville
municipal election.
�My aunt hadn�t voted in seven years and she surely wasn�t in her right
mind to vote in the 2011 election,� said the woman�s nephew, who asked to
not be identified. �We think this is a case of voting fraud. Her vote was
stolen.�
Sure enough, I obtained a copy of the woman�s voter profile and it shows
her casting her absentee vote on Nov. 8, 2011, Election Day. Her previous
voting activity took place in the 2004 general election, a seven-year gap
in between votes.
�We wondered how this could have happened knowing my aunt�s situation,�
her nephew told me.
As mandated by law, absentee �traveling boards� routinely visit registered
voters who are physically unable to venture out to vote, or who are
confined in nursing homes, hospitals and so on. It�s a great service for
those voters who want to contribute to the voting process but who simply
cannot do it on their own, for whatever reason.
The bipartisan traveling boards are mandated to be comprised of one
Democrat and one Republican to ensure no funny business takes place.
According to Indiana law on absentee voting via a traveling board, one of
the following must apply:
�The voter expects to be confined, due to illness or injury, or the voter
expects to be caring for a confined person at a private residence, on
Election Day.�
�The voter is a voter with disabilities and believes their polling place
is not accessible to them.�
�The ballot will be delivered to you by a bipartisan absentee voter board
who will be able to assist you with your ballot.�
And, on a side note, voters voting by traveling board are not required to
show photo identification.
�Our travel board ladies are the ones who go out to the nursing homes to
assist the voters. No one can fill the ballot out for them,� said Sundae
Schoon, co-director of Porter County Voter Registration.
Those same women are trained to �read� elderly or disabled voters to make
sure they are mentally capable of voting, Schoon said.
�If they do not look like or act like they are able to vote, then they are
challenged or not (allowed) to vote,� she added.
The women also work with facility administrators to determine which voters
are capable or not.
�What kind of traveling board is this we have, getting people who are
vulnerable to agree to vote for someone because they just ask?� the
woman�s nephew asked. �We wonder if they bring cookies or something to
bribe the people for their votes?�
�This is just another example of why Lake County has the reputation it
does.�
�Extremely rare case�
I contacted Lake County Election Board attorney Jim Wieser, who said he
has never heard of such an incident.
�It�s an extremely rare case that causes concern to me,� he said.
As well it should, even if it�s a rarity, an anomaly or an accident.
However, because it happened in Lake County, Indiana, most of us would
first think corruption, voter fraud and stolen votes.
Wieser said the woman�s voter registration should have been purged or
labeled inactive because all those years of inactivity. But it wasn�t for
whatever reason.
Back in 2003 and 2004, roughly 100,000 names were purged from the rolls in
a massive overhaul of the system, he said. But since the woman last voted
in 2004, her name remained on the roll, obviously until 2011.
Election code laws don�t specifically differentiate on what type of
�disability� pertains to absentee voters who need assistance from
traveling boards. Usually, the disability is a physical one, not mental.
Also, Wieser noted, traveling boards only pay a visit on request from
either a voter, a family member or a facility administrator. The boards
don�t simply �pop in� to collect votes.
Still, the traveling board somehow managed to secure a vote from the old
woman even though her mind was not at all sound, her family insists.
Maybe she was having a �good day,� I suggested. Maybe not. What are the
odds, after years of not even recognizing her own family?
�If the facility she was in condoned this type of activity, several
restrictions should be in place for residents to be allowed to vote,� the
nephew said. �The county, state or whatever should require family members,
guardians, doctors to be aware of this activity and sign off before
solicited votes are allowed.�
Wieser agrees, and that�s his advice during this election season to avoid
a similar situation with your loved ones.
If your family member has similar memory problems or a mental disability,
especially if they�re institutionalized, you should notify the facility
administrator with your concerns. Or contact your county election board to
give it a head�s up about your loved one�s ability (or inability) to cast
a ballot.
�We were appalled that this happened without any of our knowledge,� the
nephew said.
This shady situation shouldn�t happen again to those of us who now know
better, thanks to him.
But, we should also offer our thanks to the old woman who inadvertently
helped reveal this loophole in the voting process. After all those decades
of voting, last year�s suspicious vote may make the most impact after all.
Too bad she�ll never know it.
--
Obama's black racist USAG appointee.
Eric Holder, racist black United States Attorney General drops voter
intimidation charges against the Black Panthers, "You are about to be
ruled by the black man, cracker!"
Eric Holder, prejudiced black United States Attorney General settles the
hate crime debate, "Whites Not Protected by Hate Crime Laws."
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact, to
former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New
York's million dollar tax evasion.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder, committed treason by knowingly and
deliberately arming enemies of the United States of America through
Operation Fast and Furious. Complicit in the murder of Federal employees
during the execution of their duties.
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The 75-year-old woman struggled with dementia, for years not even
recognizing her own family when they visited her nursing home.
She also couldn�t write legibly, let alone sign her name or decipher which
political candidate to vote for in last year�s municipal election.
Yet when her family went to place their vote at the polling place last
November, on Election Day, the register log showed the woman�s name and a
red mark on it, stamped at the Lake County Government Center.
Somehow, shockingly, she had voted by absentee ballot in a Merrillville
municipal election.
�My aunt hadn�t voted in seven years and she surely wasn�t in her right
mind to vote in the 2011 election,� said the woman�s nephew, who asked to
not be identified. �We think this is a case of voting fraud. Her vote was
stolen.�
Sure enough, I obtained a copy of the woman�s voter profile and it shows
her casting her absentee vote on Nov. 8, 2011, Election Day. Her previous
voting activity took place in the 2004 general election, a seven-year gap
in between votes.
�We wondered how this could have happened knowing my aunt�s situation,�
her nephew told me.
As mandated by law, absentee �traveling boards� routinely visit registered
voters who are physically unable to venture out to vote, or who are
confined in nursing homes, hospitals and so on. It�s a great service for
those voters who want to contribute to the voting process but who simply
cannot do it on their own, for whatever reason.
The bipartisan traveling boards are mandated to be comprised of one
Democrat and one Republican to ensure no funny business takes place.
According to Indiana law on absentee voting via a traveling board, one of
the following must apply:
�The voter expects to be confined, due to illness or injury, or the voter
expects to be caring for a confined person at a private residence, on
Election Day.�
�The voter is a voter with disabilities and believes their polling place
is not accessible to them.�
�The ballot will be delivered to you by a bipartisan absentee voter board
who will be able to assist you with your ballot.�
And, on a side note, voters voting by traveling board are not required to
show photo identification.
�Our travel board ladies are the ones who go out to the nursing homes to
assist the voters. No one can fill the ballot out for them,� said Sundae
Schoon, co-director of Porter County Voter Registration.
Those same women are trained to �read� elderly or disabled voters to make
sure they are mentally capable of voting, Schoon said.
�If they do not look like or act like they are able to vote, then they are
challenged or not (allowed) to vote,� she added.
The women also work with facility administrators to determine which voters
are capable or not.
�What kind of traveling board is this we have, getting people who are
vulnerable to agree to vote for someone because they just ask?� the
woman�s nephew asked. �We wonder if they bring cookies or something to
bribe the people for their votes?�
�This is just another example of why Lake County has the reputation it
does.�
�Extremely rare case�
I contacted Lake County Election Board attorney Jim Wieser, who said he
has never heard of such an incident.
�It�s an extremely rare case that causes concern to me,� he said.
As well it should, even if it�s a rarity, an anomaly or an accident.
However, because it happened in Lake County, Indiana, most of us would
first think corruption, voter fraud and stolen votes.
Wieser said the woman�s voter registration should have been purged or
labeled inactive because all those years of inactivity. But it wasn�t for
whatever reason.
Back in 2003 and 2004, roughly 100,000 names were purged from the rolls in
a massive overhaul of the system, he said. But since the woman last voted
in 2004, her name remained on the roll, obviously until 2011.
Election code laws don�t specifically differentiate on what type of
�disability� pertains to absentee voters who need assistance from
traveling boards. Usually, the disability is a physical one, not mental.
Also, Wieser noted, traveling boards only pay a visit on request from
either a voter, a family member or a facility administrator. The boards
don�t simply �pop in� to collect votes.
Still, the traveling board somehow managed to secure a vote from the old
woman even though her mind was not at all sound, her family insists.
Maybe she was having a �good day,� I suggested. Maybe not. What are the
odds, after years of not even recognizing her own family?
�If the facility she was in condoned this type of activity, several
restrictions should be in place for residents to be allowed to vote,� the
nephew said. �The county, state or whatever should require family members,
guardians, doctors to be aware of this activity and sign off before
solicited votes are allowed.�
Wieser agrees, and that�s his advice during this election season to avoid
a similar situation with your loved ones.
If your family member has similar memory problems or a mental disability,
especially if they�re institutionalized, you should notify the facility
administrator with your concerns. Or contact your county election board to
give it a head�s up about your loved one�s ability (or inability) to cast
a ballot.
�We were appalled that this happened without any of our knowledge,� the
nephew said.
This shady situation shouldn�t happen again to those of us who now know
better, thanks to him.
But, we should also offer our thanks to the old woman who inadvertently
helped reveal this loophole in the voting process. After all those decades
of voting, last year�s suspicious vote may make the most impact after all.
Too bad she�ll never know it.
--
Obama's black racist USAG appointee.
Eric Holder, racist black United States Attorney General drops voter
intimidation charges against the Black Panthers, "You are about to be
ruled by the black man, cracker!"
Eric Holder, prejudiced black United States Attorney General settles the
hate crime debate, "Whites Not Protected by Hate Crime Laws."
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact, to
former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New
York's million dollar tax evasion.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder, committed treason by knowingly and
deliberately arming enemies of the United States of America through
Operation Fast and Furious. Complicit in the murder of Federal employees
during the execution of their duties.
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