Want To Find Vote Fraud? Look No Further Than Nursing Homes
"It is absolutely an epidemic,” explained the operator of an assisted living facility in Dane County, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Votes are stolen all the time because it’s just so easy to do.”
In Wisconsin, state law requires a local clerk or elections board to name two “special voting deputies” (one from each major political party) to conduct all in-person and mail-in absentee voting at each qualified nursing home and assisted living facility in the municipality.
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak in March, however, the Wisconsin Elections Commission barred special voting deputies from entering these facilities and simply had ballots mailed to residents directly.
“This was a disaster,” the assisted living facility operator said. “There was no oversight at any of these homes and residents were taken advantage of.”
That’s exactly what Susan, a disability service coordinator in the Milwaukee area, alleges happened to each one of her more than 20 clients.
“I haven’t been able to see them in person since March because of COVID, but we do Zoom calls regularly,” she explained. “Right after the election, one of my clients said that he voted for [Democratic Presidential candidate Joe] Biden but didn’t want to.”
Her curiosity piqued, Susan (whose name has been changed because she fears reprisal for blowing the whistle on what she believes is widespread fraud) then asked each of her other clients about the election. Shockingly, all of them—who all live at various assisted living centers and group homes in and around Milwaukee—said that they either had a ballot filled out for Biden in their name or were pressured to vote for Biden by staff members who assisted them in voting.
One woman even told the staff member at her home who was helping her vote that she wanted to vote for President Trump, but the staffer marked her ballot for Biden anyway.
“She told me, ‘I really wanted to vote for Trump, but [the staff member] said ‘no, he’s a bad man. We’re voting for Biden,'” Susan said. “And the staff member instructed her to vote for Biden. So she did. But she wasn’t happy about it.”
Susan’s experience convinced her that this sort of fraud in nursing homes is far more prevalent than anyone cares to admit.
“If it happened to all of them, it’s happening to a lot of people–the sort of people who we should be protecting and instead they’re just being used to steal their votes. It’s just heartbreaking.”
Disgustingly, by ignoring the plain letter of state law requiring trained deputies to administer elections in nursing homes and care facilities, the Wisconsin Elections Commission made preying upon this state’s most vulnerable even easier.
Is it any wonder, then, that Wisconsinites keep coming forward with stories of loved ones who couldn’t possibly be aware enough to vote still voting from their nursing homes?
This author even received the following email as he was writing this column:
“Hi Dan, My father-in-law is in a nursing home. [The] MyVote [database] shows he voted absentee this election and 2018. He is 101, ruled [legally] incapacitated. He is easily persuaded. We don’t know who did this.”
Possible fraud such as this is so difficult to discover because only family members like this emailer or whistleblowers like the ones quoted above are in a position to find it. It is therefore incumbent upon every single Wisconsinite with firsthand knowledge of what amounts to abuse of the elderly and disabled to come forward so that it is impossible to ignore.
Then it is incumbent upon everyone else to demand prosecution of it and legislation and enforcement to ensure that it never happens again.
https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2020/11/want-to-find-vote-fraud-look-no-further-than-nursing-homes/