As I mentioned here, I had nursing home duty this morning. By that I mean that I went to assist the residents of a local nursing home in preparing their ballots to vote absentee.
I was assigned to the same nursing home as last time but there were far fewer voters and it was much quieter and more orderly. There were no arguments, no shouting matches. No people with serious dementia telling me their life stories. In short, it was quite dull.
I arrived a little before 9:00am, helped my colleagues complete the setup, assisted about half of the voters in preparing their ballots (the other half either required no assistance or were assistend by someone else). For those who are concerned about this process, the voter must complete an affidavit requesting assistance and they are then assisted by two people—one Republican and one Democrat. We do our best to preserve the voter’s privacy during the process.
I won’t violate my voters’ privacy by telling you how they voted. Suffice it to say that it will be interesting to see how good a predictor the nursing home vote is for the final results.
