The Right vs. Capacity To Vote

(Hartville, Ohio) Upon visiting his parents in a nursing home, Robert Floyd was surprised to see them wearing "I Voted Today" stickers.

His mother suffers from Alzheimer's. His father, ailing with lung cancer, is under hospice care. He said they are not capable of voting. He says both are 81, and their minds are failing them.

State law requires local boards of elections to conduct absentee ballot voting at nursing homes. But Floyd is concerned that his parents' physical and mental incapacities may have made them susceptible to voting fraud.

This makes me wonder how many votes are cast by the incapacitated.

(via The Country Store)