Wisconsin Woman Wonders Why Incapacitated Mother Voted this Month

In early October, Janet's mother passed away at her assisted living facility following a long battle with dementia. Ethel, who was 95, lived a long, full life and Janet did not consider her death a surprise.

What was a surprise, however, was the fact that two weeks earlier, Ethel returned an absentee ballot.

She hasn't been lucid enough to make any qualified decisions for years. I was her power of attorney and had legal paperwork stating she was incapacitated and not able to make her own decisions, which is on record at her facility."

her mother's condition steadily worsened since she first entered assisted living in 2012 and that since that time, she has been wholly unable to make any decisions on her own; least of all for whom to vote.

Ethel's publicly available voting records, however, indicate that she has voted absentee by mail in every election since 2012 save for the 2017 spring election, 2018 spring election, 2018 partisan primary, 2018 gubernatorial election, and 2019 spring election.

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