Tucker Carlson Telling People Not To Vote?

[Xipe Totec]

Claims Alzheimer patients who can't vote on their own are cravenly manipulated by Democratic activists who 'help' them at the polling booth. Says that anyone who can't vote on their own should not vote.

:wtf:

[bluestateguy]

1. This can be looked into

Did Ronald Reagan cast a ballot in 2000? A person more resourceful than I could find out.

[DURHAM D]

3. Forget 2000 - how about '84 on. (n/t)

[alittlelark]

2. My friend's cousin is blind -

maybe she shouldn't vote either?

Tucker has been steadily falling apart for the last 4 months or so.

[jimshoes]

4. Interesting point...

Can someone with power of attorney for an aging relative cast a vote for that person? I should think not, but are there any legal eagles here who know for certain?

[Spinzonner]

5. No, but voters can be assisted in most states

and Poll Workers are not generally empowered to evaluate why someone requires assistance.

And with an absentee ballot it would be difficult to catch unless there were signature matching issues.

I doubt Registrars check for legal incompetence filings, assuming a Power of Attoney was even a public record.

[Gman]

6. What about reading and writing and owning property?

and what about the Negoes? Do they get to vote in Tucker's world?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. I didn't watch him tonight, but

no doubt he was referring to this article:

Dementia and the Voter

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Dementia and the Voter
Research Raises Ethical, Constitutional Questions

By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 14, 2004; Page A01

Florida neurologist Marc Swerdloff was taken aback when one of his patients with advanced dementia voted in the 2000 presidential election. The man thought it was 1942 and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. The patient's wife revealed that she had escorted her husband into the booth.

"I said 'Did he pick?' and she said 'No, I picked for him,' " Swerdloff said. "I felt bad. She essentially voted twice" in the Florida election, which gave George W. Bush a 537-vote victory and the White House.
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8. Carlson Went Beyond This Point

He explicitly accused Democratic activists of taking advantage of the situation to throw the election by stealing the votes of old people.

This is Jim Crowism in compassionate conservative drag.

[radfringe]

12. if poll worker is a Republican

would it then be ok to "help" someone vote?

I also heard some guest host on a RW-radio station saying that if everyone who is eligable to vote did vote that democracy would fall apart...

apparantly - this "moran" doesn't understand the definition of democracy...

I've been hearing similar tidbits here and there, they usually follow a story regarding new voter registration where figures are given on how many new voters registered as Dem or Rep, and/or how many are switching party registration -- usually the numbers have indicated that more people are switching to Democratic party affiliation or a as a new voter they are registering as Democratic.

Recent story in my neck of the woods (NE-PA) showed that approximately 70% of new voters are registering as Democratics, about 10% as independent/other and 20% as Republican -- it's also been record breaking numbers for new voters overall.

[PCIntern]

9. some people say that Carlson

is an ultra-fastidious, OCD sufferer who shakes it many more than three times at the urinal.

Soem people say that's probably not true.

We report, you decide.

[liberal N proud]

10. Large voter turnout is a republican nightmare

The more people that vote, the less change chimp has.

[tomfodw]

11. This is ridiculous

The biggest red herring I can think of. Considering that millions of perfectly able Americans don't bother to vote at all, and he's wasting his (and our) time worrying about this? Unless and until he can show incontrovertible proof that this is a widespread problem (and by incontrovertible proof, I do not mean, "Someone told me that someone told them that they heard of someone saying that their elderly aunt with Alzheimer's was cravenly manipulated by Democratic activists"), this should be filed under "Next?"

[wellstone dem]

13. I helped my Grandmother vote

We helped her get an absentee ballot. Then I sat on the couch with her and we chatted as she voted. It was not an easy thing to do as this was one of the Clinton elections. She said to me, "I should vote Bush (or Dole don't remember which) right?" I replied, "Grandma, this is like a voting booth, you are the one who has to decide." And she voted for Bush. I treated that couch as an election office where campaigning isn't allowed.

[lanparty]

14. Like the blind?????

So nice of them to suggest that the blind should not be able to cast their own votes.

But also keep in mind that poll workers are often bi-partisan and there are also a fair number of Republican poll workers. Of course, if caretakers with compassion just happen to be liberals, so be it I guess.

[struggle4progress]

15. Does he think Republicans should stop helping dead people vote in Texas?