Son worries about parents' votes
They don't know who he is, but law lets nursing home residents cast ballot
By Lisa A. Abraham
Beacon Journal staff writer
When Robert Floyd went to visit his parents at the Hartville nursing home where they reside, he was struck by the fact that both were wearing ``I voted today'' stickers.
His mother suffers from Alzheimer's. His father, ailing with lung cancer, is under hospice care.
Both 81, their minds unfortunately fail them.
``If you can't remember who your own son is, how can you vote on issues and the presidency?'' Floyd wondered.
After some checking, he learned that the nursing home had arranged for its residents to vote absentee.
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Floyd said his parents were lifelong Democrats who moved to a nursing home in September from Akron's Ellet neighborhood. He wonders if they were able to vote for candidates he knew they would have supported and how they were even able to make the determination.
Neither of his parents were able to recall if they voted, or who they voted for, and he believes a family member should have been present to aid them with voting.
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