Anonymous
04/12/2024 11:51
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I don't agree with the Nursing home statement, but there is a legitimate concern about elderly people with dementia voting. Some of them don't even know the current year or who is running for president. Family members will take mom to vote even though she has severe dementia believes that we are in the 1970's and that Richard Nixon is president. I don't know what the solution is, but this is becoming a bigger problem as the US population ages.
I worked at a nursing home and this was a common occurrence. People would take elderly family members with them to vote that did not remember their kids names.
I worked at the same nursing home as you and that never happened.
Anonymous
04/12/2024 11:46
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I don't agree with the Nursing home statement, but there is a legitimate concern about elderly people with dementia voting. Some of them don't even know the current year or who is running for president. Family members will take mom to vote even though she has severe dementia believes that we are in the 1970's and that Richard Nixon is president. I don't know what the solution is, but this is becoming a bigger problem as the US population ages.
I worked at a nursing home and this was a common occurrence. People would take elderly family members with them to vote that did not remember their kids names.
Most people with dementia are not easy to take places, much less take somewhere with lines to vote, filling out anything. I call bullshit.
Anonymous
04/12/2024 11:43
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
Anonymous wrote:
I can understand senators/families not living in the states they represent, at least from a logistical standpoint. If the work is in DC, it makes sense to live in/near DC. Which is a whole different thing from being REGISTERED TO VOTE in a whole different state than the one you (hope to) represent.
Hawley's case is a very typical issue for Senators and Congressmen who spend the majority of their time in the Washington DC metro area due to their work in Congress. There are many who have homes in MD/DC/VA and also one at home which they rarely use. But if you are requiring them to spend the 181 days in the house that the government requires for establishing the home as their primary resident, then you will make Congress even more dysfunctional and less productive than they already are. They are already one of the least productive Congresses ever, and you'll make it worse.
And like immediate PP said, having two homes one at home and one local to DC, is very different from being registered to vote in a jurisdiction other than the one you represent.
Anonymous
04/12/2024 09:20
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
I can understand senators/families not living in the states they represent, at least from a logistical standpoint. If the work is in DC, it makes sense to live in/near DC. Which is a whole different thing from being REGISTERED TO VOTE in a whole different state than the one you (hope to) represent.
Anonymous
Anonymous
04/10/2024 21:31
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I don't agree with the Nursing home statement, but there is a legitimate concern about elderly people with dementia voting. Some of them don't even know the current year or who is running for president. Family members will take mom to vote even though she has severe dementia believes that we are in the 1970's and that Richard Nixon is president. I don't know what the solution is, but this is becoming a bigger problem as the US population ages.
I worked at a nursing home and this was a common occurrence. People would take elderly family members with them to vote that did not remember their kids names.
Yeah, right. Aren't you still in high school?
Anonymous
04/10/2024 21:30
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
Anonymous wrote:
I don't agree with the Nursing home statement, but there is a legitimate concern about elderly people with dementia voting. Some of them don't even know the current year or who is running for president. Family members will take mom to vote even though she has severe dementia believes that we are in the 1970's and that Richard Nixon is president. I don't know what the solution is, but this is becoming a bigger problem as the US population ages.
This may be your subjective opinion based on ?????, but to make such statements, you usually need facts.
Here's a fact from MY experience: I know three people in their 90s who walked to the polls and voted in the last election. In your world, they wouldn't be allowed to vote simply because of their age.
So, please, prove that older, demented people voting "is becoming a bigger problem." Use facts, please.
Anonymous
04/10/2024 21:22
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
I disagree, pp ^^. I think die-hard MAGA will support Hogan because they want a GOP-controlled Senate. But the abortion issue overall is bad news for the GOP, including Hogan.
Anonymous
04/10/2024 20:52
Subject: Re:2024 Senate Elections
Generally good news.
I realize Larry Hogan is generally very popular in MD, but I think he has big problems ahead. Die hard MAGA won't support him if he's not lockstep with Trump and anti-choice, and I think by November women are going to be very fired up to vote pro-choice. If we were in a normal timeline he'd probably be a lock.
Anonymous
04/09/2024 10:40
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
Anonymous wrote:
I don't agree with the Nursing home statement, but there is a legitimate concern about elderly people with dementia voting. Some of them don't even know the current year or who is running for president. Family members will take mom to vote even though she has severe dementia believes that we are in the 1970's and that Richard Nixon is president. I don't know what the solution is, but this is becoming a bigger problem as the US population ages.
Then they will write in Nixon or McCarthy or something. Either way, they have a right to vote.
Anonymous
04/09/2024 10:30
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
Vulnerable people have more at stake in elections than anyone else, that’s why privileged a-holes always want to disenfranchise them.
Anonymous
04/09/2024 10:02
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
Anonymous wrote:
I don't agree with the Nursing home statement, but there is a legitimate concern about elderly people with dementia voting. Some of them don't even know the current year or who is running for president. Family members will take mom to vote even though she has severe dementia believes that we are in the 1970's and that Richard Nixon is president. I don't know what the solution is, but this is becoming a bigger problem as the US population ages.
I worked at a nursing home and this was a common occurrence. People would take elderly family members with them to vote that did not remember their kids names.
Anonymous
04/09/2024 09:58
Subject: 2024 Senate Elections
Anonymous wrote:
I don't agree with the Nursing home statement, but there is a legitimate concern about elderly people with dementia voting. Some of them don't even know the current year or who is running for president. Family members will take mom to vote even though she has severe dementia believes that we are in the 1970's and that Richard Nixon is president. I don't know what the solution is, but this is becoming a bigger problem as the US population ages.
I have seen absolutely zero evidence that this is an actual issue. But if you are concerned about a specific person, you can try to get a court to declare them unfit to vote. You don't disenfranchise whole groups of people because there may be individuals who could be deemed ineligible. That's obvious. Also it's crackerjacks bonkers for Rs of all people to challenge old people's right to vote, since where do they think their votes are coming from?