THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMM.....

Have you ever wondered about how absentee ballots are done in your state? I know, I think of the damn-dest things, BUT I was visiting a friend in a nursing home and we discussing the up coming election and how absentee ballots were prepared for the nursing home as well as the military, etc.

When she first became a resident and received her ballot, a staff member was going to complete it for her, but she refused then, and since has had family members complete hers. Even though the staff member meant well, she was afraid they would mark "whom-ever they wanted." She is blind.

She asked the staffers how absentee ballots were done and they told her they receive the ballots by bulk mail and complete them for the residents!!!

This made me think if this was legal?? I mean how can we be sure that the vote is going for the right candidate??

I contacted my election board and in our state. The election board said that absentee ballots request forms are mailed as a courtesy, to all nursing homes. Residents wanting to request an absentee application can fill out the request forms and return them to the office. Applications are then sent to the voters to be completed and returned. Upon receipt of the application, " ballots are mailed directly to the voter." The voter completes the ballot and the ballot is returned to the office by mail.

IF he voter requires assistance to vote their ballot, the person assisting must sign at the bottom of the return envelope where is says: OATH OF PERSON ASSISTING VOTER.

I just think that some the residents in a nursing home, that are really incapacitated, and know nothing about what is going on, can really be taken advantage of in this matter. I don't how it works in the military, but I did have one person that had served our country say that they often wondered if their ballot went to the right candidate, because really no one knows if they are handled properly, thrown away, etc, especially after all the shit that happened with Gore!!