Rosewood Care Center in Inverness, Illinois, April 13, 2019 Credit – Danielle A. Scruggs – The New York Times / Redux
Ivan Lakos, born in Hungary and arriving in the United States in 1951 as a displaced user after World War II, became a citizen after about five years and has been voting ever since.
Lakos lives in a qualified retirement home at Carol Woods Retirement Community in North Carolina, which houses about 500 citizens and houses its own polling station with volunteers on site to help citizens complete ballots and navigate voting machines, but this year it is not. An option for him. To protect against COVID-19, the facility has limited its activities and lately prohibits visitors from internal buildings. For Lakos, and about 2. 2 million others like him living in nursing homes and other long-term care services across the country: this represents a significant impediment to emancipation.
“We are involved with others living in nursing homes and residential facilities,” says Michelle Bishop, electoral rights specialist at the National Network for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. “The pandemic eliminated many of the tactics we have to get the survey for others living in retirement homes and long-term care centers.
While many Americans have turned to mail and mail votes this year, these strategies are not a simple solution for many older people. “My hands don’t paint very well,” Lakos says, contemplating the option to publish his ballot. “The pen doesn’t go where I need it to go. “Under North Carolina law, nursing home staff cannot help citizens complete ballots, and many citizens, adding to the Lakos, do not have a surviving circle of close relatives who can give them a hand (before COVID-19, many North Carolina counties sent groups to retirement homes and other physical care services to help citizens vote , but this year, restrictions on visitors have also limited those efforts. )
What is at stake is mainly this year, as older Americans were a key voter bloc for Donald Trump in 2016, however, recent votes recommend that they simply be transferred from the side. New CNN ballotArray 27 issues on an NBC/WSJ ballot and across an even greater margin on a Newsy/YouGov ballot among the moderate electorate on the state battlefield. Trump himself is aware of the risks of this “grey revolt. “tweeted a video for the electorate with the message “ToMY FAVOURITE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!”
But the Trump administration’s gleaming reaction to the coronavirus pandemic appears to have resonated among the elderly population, as most people living in residential care services are elderly or disabled people, putting them in the greatest threat of being seriously ill by the coronavirus and pandemic has already affected. at least 40% of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States have been linked to long-term care services. Even seven months after the start of the pandemic, these services continue to suffer to the point that they are not public. Protective devices (PPE), labor and coronavirus testing to ensure the safety of all. Now, guest restrictions placed to prevent the virus from entering, combined with adjustments to state voting regulations and delays in the US Postal Service. The best typhoon of pitfalls that can mean the deprivation of the voting rights of a giant segment of senior and disabled American voters.
Although there is very little knowledge about the electoral participation of nursing home residents, the electorate of older age is among the politically enggeled highs. In 2016, the participation rate for others over the age of 65 was 70. 9% compared to 46. 1% of those over the age of 18 to 29, and in 2018 it was 66. 1% compared to 35. 6% of the younger group.
Trump’s repeated discredit from the mail vote and suggest without evidence that he is more likely to have another generalized fraud voting bureaucracy left voting advocates, long-term care services, and election officials struggling to ensure that others like Lakos have access to retirement homes and other establishments that get the Medicare or Medicaid budget are required by federal law. rights of residents, who come with the vote. This week she issued new rules reminding establishments of this requirement, but establishments are rarely punished for not doing this duty, says Nina Kohn, a professor of law at Syracuse University who specializes in nursing home law.
LeadingAge, an organization representing nonprofit retirement homes and other older service providers, recently launched a set of voting tools for its members and asked a representative of the National Association of Secretaries of State to provide recommendations during its normal call to suppliers this week. “This is a demographic organization that has voted in large numbers in the afterlife and really values its right to vote,” says Katie Smith Sloan, President and CEO of LeadingAge. “Our members know it and will do everything they can to achieve it imaginable to them. “
Typically, many long-term care centers, in addition to Carol Woods Retirement Community, serve as official polling stations. Staff organize outings of the organization to vote on voting day or those who vote by mail can receive from their friends and family. followed the rules of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and moved polling stations out of physical care facilities. Residents of states such as Texas and Pennsylvania were warned that they might want to quarantine or have trouble returning to retirement homes if they approve to vote in person.
For absentees, an option that has made voting much less difficult for many Americans this year, election officials rushed to propose new voting procedures in retirement homes to adapt to their country’s conversion situation.
Wisconsin has canceled its same old efforts to send election officials to retirement homes to help with voting. States such as North Carolina, Florida, and Ohio have left local jurisdictions to outline procedures for sending groups to individual facilities. Iowa sends bipartisan groups of election officials to hand over ballots to nursing centers, but has gone on to send ballots to voters in the middle of the pandemic. All of these plans are based on staff assistance in long-term care facilities, which are already under staffed and overworked. while fighting the ongoing COVID-19 epidemics.
“From a staffing point of view, I have been saying for a few weeks that all lighting fixtures flash red. This is a catastrophic situation,” says Sondra Norder, president and CEO of St Retirement Home and Service Residences. Paul Elder Services in Kaukauna and Green Bay, Wisconsin. Norder was able to get his social staff team to help citizens with their absentee ballots so that the paintings would not pass on to nurses, however, he noted that a small establishment with fewer social staff might not have that option.
In Louisiana and North Carolina, where Lakos lives, state law prevents residential care service personnel from helping to vote at all. Kohn in Syracuse said he was violating the Electoral Rights Act, but when a North Carolina resident sued the state for this factor in the summer, a federal court ruled that voter rights had been violated and that the attendance ban could continue.
Even where staff can help, there are still many demanding situations. Many nursing home citizens have some point of memory loss or intellectual disorder, and while this does not mean that they lose their right to vote, this may lead staff to make arbitrary judgments about some states also prohibit institutional staff from answering questions about candidate platforms to influence citizens, and others require an official witness to verify election fraud that virtually does not exist.
“When states create procedural barriers to voting, many other people cannot comply. And nursing home citizens and long-term care citizens are generally other people’s populations who will not be able to succeed over those barriers,” Kohn said. “This is, in fact, the best typhoon to deprive citizens of nursing homes of their rights. “
Fortunately, for Lakos, a solution has recently resurfaced: Indy Barker, a former sentencing dictator and resident of Carol Woods’ independent life component, organized an organization of his fellow citizens to provide information about the vote, act as witnesses to the mailing. assistance to those who needed help filling out their ballots. Last week, Barker sat at a giant outdoor lakos table outside his construction to help him fill out his ballot.
“I probably wouldn’t have gone to vote unless Sindy evolved that way,” Lakos says.
Barker is still working hard to make sure that one hundred percent of citizens who can vote at Carol Woods do so by October 15 so they know their votes will be counted on polling day. There will be an independent polling place for some citizens. , however, encourages those who can vote now to reduce queues and congestion. She spends about 4 hours a day, several days a week, contacting her fellow citizens, contacting their families, reading the ballot papers and testifying to herself.
She also is on the legislative committee of the North Carolina Continuing Care Residents Association, and says she encourages other retirement communities to expand systems similar to their local effort. But if you don’t have like her to give time and the amenities can’t stop choosing officials inside, she doesn’t know what’s going to happen.
“I’m worried about them,” Barker says of other long-term care services in North Carolina. “But I can just cheer them up. It’s important. “
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