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Some Of OT's Voting Buddies

Mike

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BUTNER NC — Recent stepped-up voter registration efforts at state mental hospitals and facilities for the developmentally disabled resulted in the registration of Wendell Justin Williamson, who in 1995 killed two people in Chapel Hill and was judged not guilty by reason of insanity.

Election records show Williamson, a patient at Central Regional Hospital in Butner, was registered on Sept. 13 as an unaffiliated voter. He cast an absentee ballot that was accepted Oct. 15 by the Granville County Board of Elections.

In a street shootout in January 1995 near the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, Williamson, a law student, used an M-1 rifle to kill two strangers. The not-guilty verdict caused a national furor. He attracted additional headlines this week when a judge granted Williamson unsupervised off-campus privileges.

Efforts to register mental patients and residents of centers for the developmentally disabled have taken place in recent months in several locations around the state.

Employees of the Murdoch Developmental Center, a state-run facility in Butner for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled, recently registered 36 of the more than 500 residents to vote in what appears to have been a voter registration drive at the facility. In addition, some residents were checked out of the facility and transported to early voting centers to cast votes.

As of Oct. 30, eight of the center’s residents had voted in person at one of the two early voting sites in Granville County, Carolina Journal has learned. One of the sites is at the Creedmoor City Hall, four miles from the Murdoch Center. The residents voted at the early voting locations on five different days.

Registration activities also appear to have taken place at two other centers serving those with extreme developmental disabilities — the Riddle Developmental Center in Morganton and the Caswell Developmental Center in Kinston.

By law, facility employees are prohibited from assisting the residents with voting, but each resident could have asked an election site official for help in completing a ballot. The developmentally disabled also may receive help from a close relative or legal guardian, but CJ has been unable to determine if these rules were followed in any of the instances in Granville County.
 
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Just think of the millions of people yearly diagnosed with some level of mental illness... I'm sure many of those posting on this site have been- and more should be seeking treatment... :wink: :lol:

Now once diagnosed- how and who makes the decision you still have or don't have symptoms of a mental illness or to what level you are effected... And what level mental illness or recovery should you be allowed to or not to vote..... :???:

As far as I'm concerned- white supremacist, sexist, successionist anarchists like Mike are crazier than a bedbug- and very dangerous to the country... But thats my personal opinion- and may not be backed by others especially in differing areas of the country...

I don't think this is an issue government should be sticking their nose in... If for every other reason they qualify- and they can mark the ballot or in the case of physical disability indicate to a assistant how to- they should be allowed to vote...
 

Mike

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This man killed two strangers. Is in an asylum and you really think he should vote?

:roll:

Hey Einstein, what's a successionist? Clue us in will ya? :lol: :lol:
 

hopalong

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Mike said:
This man killed two strangers. Is in an asylum and you really think he should vote?

:roll:

Hey Einstein, what's a successionist? Clue us in will ya? :lol: :lol:

To oldtimer it is ok as long as they cast a ballet for hos chosen one,,,AGAINST the law and should be stopped if that person should vote against oldtimers wishes :roll:
 

Mike

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Nov. 5 -The father of a mentally handicapped woman claims his daughter and others were “carted off” to a North Carolina polling site last week and “coaxed” into voting for President Obama by workers of the group home where she stays -- a claim the owner of the home disputes and that apparently has not yet triggered an investigation by election officials.
The father, Cecil Pearson, said his daughter – who is 40 but has the “mentality ... of a 7-year-old” – was “brainwashed the night before” and then taken to a Roanoke Rapids polling site on Friday to vote. He said his daughter told him what happened when he picked her up on Sunday.
“They brought her a piece of paper and they indicated which block to check,” Pearson told FoxNews.com. “She voted for Barack Obama and was coaxed into doing that.” He claimed “more than four” people were brought to the site.
The owner of the home, Easter Seals UCP, is disputing the account. Communications officer Jeff Smith told FoxNews.com, without going into great detail, that “it’s not uncommon” for the homes to provide transportation to polling sites. Asked whether Pearson’s daughter or anyone that day was guided to vote for a particular candidate, he said “not to my knowledge.”
Further, Smith said it’s their right to cast a ballot. “There is no intellectual test to whether or not you can vote,” he said.
However, Jay DeLancy, director of the Voter Integrity Project in North Carolina, said that’s not the case when there’s a court order declaring a resident mentally incompetent, which Pearson said had long ago been issued for his daughter – just a year after she registered to vote.
“They’re politically exploiting that child,” DeLancy said. He said, though, that any parent in this situation has the ability to pull any ballot before the votes are certified. In this case, that process is set to conclude Nov. 16.
It’s not the first time such allegations have been made in the state. FoxNews.com obtained a letter sent last month from Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions to the state Board of Elections claiming an internal review found several similar incidents between 2010 and 2012 by another company. Cardinal Innovations, which covers Medicaid and other benefits in North Carolina, reported in the Oct. 18 letter that “at least seven" of their enrollees at a behavioral health center called Elite Care Services were registered to vote over that period.
“The registration forms were filled out at the residential facility by Elite staff, using the facility address. Each of the seven enrollees was registered to the Democratic party,” the letter said, adding that a vote was recorded in the May 2012 Democratic primary in Stanly County for each.
Guardians for five of the patients apparently claimed they were never informed – though, according to the letter, an investigation by Elite concluded that only one enrollee was registered to vote without consent of the guardian.
A representative with Cardinal Innovations confirmed the authenticity of the letter.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/05/group-home-accused-taking-patients-to-vote-for-obama-as-agency-disputes-claim/#ixzz2BSZ1s43r
 
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