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You’d Have To Be Crazy to Vote for George Bush

Dementia and the Voter (washingtonpost.com)

Heh, heh…. Only the Washington Post.

In essence, the concern is that in states (like Florida) where there’s a larger than average percentage of elderly–and quite possibly demented–voters, people are winning elections because their care-givers are voting twice: once for themselves and once through their influence over their crazy patient/spouse/parent.

The articles tells us: “Swerdloff [a Florida neurologist] said he wondered whether the Florida woman who voted for her demented husband was guilty of fraud. And he worried about activists going into nursing homes, where two-thirds of the residents have Alzheimer’s disease.

“”If they can go into a nursing home, why not go into an ICU and have a person who is comatose and on a ventilator — let the caregiver vote,” he said. “Then you say if a person is registered to vote, what about the brain-dead person?”"

Oh wait.

Never mind.