Nursing home voting is where some of the ugliest ballot harvesting happens, and Cleta Mitchell, founder and chairman of the Election Integrity Network, says it happens over and over again. Partisan groups go into nursing homes, group homes and shelters, register the residents, and harvest their ballots, and the residents may not even realize they are voting. After every election she hears the same call: somebody got my mother to vote, and she has had Alzheimer's for ten years.
In July the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, under Dr. Mehmet Oz, issued new guidance replacing the Biden-era rules. Residents who are competent and want to vote keep that right; they also have the right not to vote and not to have a ballot cast in their name. A resident's family or personal representative must be notified if a loved one's registration or voting status changes, and can file a complaint the facility has to publish, even after the election. The Election Integrity Network built a toolkit to put that guidance to work, and Jenny Beth Martin walks through where to find it at electionintegritynetwork.org, including the page for families.
Mitchell closes with what Virginia's new Democratic trifecta is proposing: a separate court proceeding before a person already declared incompetent can lose the right to vote. In her view it has one purpose, to make it harder to prosecute the people who vote in those residents' names.
Guest: Cleta Mitchell, Founder and Chairman, Election Integrity Network
In this segment:
• How ballot harvesting works in residential facilities
• The July guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Races decided by a handful of votes, and the ballots harvested from one facility
• Somebody got my mother to vote
• Notice to families, and complaints the facility must publish
• How to download the toolkit, and the page for families
• What to tell the management of the facility where your parent lives
• Virginia's proposal for voters declared incompetent
Download the toolkit at electionintegritynetwork.org. Then call the facility where your mother or father lives and ask who handles resident voting. Sign up to work the polls at helpatthepolls.com.
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00:00 — The exploitation of vulnerable voters
00:50 — The July guidance from Medicare and Medicaid
01:24 — The toolkit at electionintegritynetwork.org
01:50 — Races decided by a handful of votes
02:41 — Somebody got my mother to vote
03:01 — What the new guidance requires: notice and complaints
04:05 — How to find and download the toolkit
05:08 — What families can tell the facility
05:41 — Virginia's proposal for voters declared incompetent
06:46 — Why Mitchell says they are doing it
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