Here is another report of
a mentally retarded person voting for Barack Hussein Obama in North Carolina.
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."
According to poll
workers, the exploitation of the mentally disabled has been going on for
decades:
Don Talbot said he saw
vans full of mentally disabled voters brought to the polls time and again
during his years as a former precinct chief in Cumberland County. He said it
often appeared they had little input in completing the ballot.
"The audacity of it
to me, it is shameful, but both parties do it," said Talbot, a former
Fayetteville city councilman. "When you haul people that are not competent
and you do their voting for them, that's fraud."
Both parties do it? I’m inclined to think there is only one that
is this shameless.
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