This unprecedented program will offer facility residents the opportunity to:
• vote by absentee ballot, so they don’t have to travel to the polls;Equally important is the development of a valuable class to educate assisted living facility administrators on absentee voting that will count towards the required Continuing Education Credits needed every two years for core certified staff and enhance the level of training for direct care staff. The class will focus on appropriate absentee ballot handling and what is considered acceptable when assisting or observing others assisting resident voters.
• take advantage of secure, supervised voting; and
• become educated on their rights, so they are protected from absentee voting intimidation.
Elections Supervisor Pennelope Townsley said:
“I am thrilled to get this important program off the ground. Ensuring our elderly voters know their rights and view absentee voting as a viable option is a key component in this year’s education campaign. In addition, providing this important training to facility staff will ensure they properly assist their residents, and do so within the confines of the law,”
Miami Dade County Commissioner Rebeca Sosa who has been the one on the Commission spearheading absentee ballot fraud, said:
“I congratulate the Elections Department for spearheading this initiative. I fully support providing these educational opportunities to residents and staff of assisted living facilities to protect these electors’ right to vote, and I will be sponsoring legislation to show my support”
The Elections Department and FALA have contacted all associated facilities in Miami-Dade County to offer these valuable services and will begin visiting sites at the end of this month. Said Pat Lange, Executive Director of the Florida Assisted Living Association: “We are excited to be part of this innovative partnership to ensure that every vote counts.”
This couldn't make me happier.
16 comments:
I am so proud of you! I talk about this program, where ever I go.
Meanwhile, the Elections Department refuses to remove over 1,000 illegal aliens from their voting list. I guess some forms of fraud are important, and others are not.
Drucker you are such a fool. Do you get your talking points from Fox News? What you are saying is not true. Get some facts.
What the Elections Department is doing is trying to ensure FAIR voting. Taking a SUSPECTED non-citizen off is serious business. You have to know, not assume. You can't just throw a net and hope you capture some while you ensnare legal voters.
Voter lists were always purged automatically every so many years, maybe not in Florida but in most states that I know of. I wasn’t aware that was not being done nowadays.
Anyone who has worked a voting list is familiar with the number of voters who moved away, did not register, or died and other various reasons.
The fact is Miami-Dade County is so corrupt that if people are not voting illegally, I would be shocked.
I want to go to the polls without wondering if there is illegal voting going on in Miami-Dade County and perhaps all over Florida neutralizing my vote.
The only thing holding up the purge here is that the Federal Government refuses to share the list with Florida. Why?
Voting lists should be purged automatically after a certain number of years. What are the Democrats scared of?
By the way, this is not FOX News talking, nor liberal MSNBC or CNN. This is me, an ordinary voter who believes the voter lists should be purged. I don't have to watch any newscast to frame an opinion. I am very capable of independently making up my own mind.
The problems in Miami Dade county is Absentee Ballot fraud not non citizens voting. Small percentage.
Why is everyone so afraid of immigrants? I really don't understand the Xenophobia.
LOOK AT THE SMALL NUMBERS:
So far, more than 500 have been identified as citizens and lawful voters on the voter rolls. About 40 people statewide have been identified as noncitizens. At least four might have voted and could be guilty of a third-degree felony.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/08/2838758/florida-county-elections-supervisors.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy
40 people statewide and you are worried?
What's going to happen when one of those suspected illegal alien voters inevitably requests an absentee ballot? Will that ballot be flagged and the voter asked to provide documentation that he or she can legally vote? Or will voter fraud continue at the elections department?
Genius, your numbers are off. The story on the Herald front page tonite says they have confirmed 87 noncitizens on the voter lists with 47 of them having voted. The story said the number keeps rising and over 2,000 have yet to respond to repeated requests for documentation.
Why are you downplaying the illegal alien fraud issue? Miami-Dade is ground zero for the illegal alien voters and I bet there is lots of overlap with absentee voter fraud. Fraud is fraud and should not be tolerated.
If they are accurate and don't include actual citizens in their sweep I am not against it. But even 87 non citizens is not going to change an election when we have absentee ballots changing elections all the time and they are not doing anything about that. What they could do is return to the witness on the absentee ballots. It was a safeguard and it helped break the Humberto Hernandez absentee ballot fraud case. It gave us someone to go after that we don't have now. I think they are going after spiders when there are rats, that is my beef.
The several identified unqualified voters are not "illegal aliens." They are legal residents. At least one owns a successful business. In other countries, it is legal and proper for non-citizen residents to vote in elections that impact them as much as anyone else. That's why a few people immigrate here legally and register and don't realize that full citizenship is a requirement.
That has nothing to do with the real problem in our county, which is many thousands of ballots extorted from old people, and bought and paid for, even by judicial candidates.
I think the situation with the ALF's is a good start. But, remember, it' s still those administrators in each facility who are too close to political campaigns or their managers. That's what I've witnessed. Now who's going to watch them after the class if over. They're the one's who allow these politicians to march the halls of the facility's. I'm still concerned but at least we can throw them in Jail if caught.
What's Sasha going to do? I doubt she's going to lose those cash cow voters.
This is a good move. However, many that live at a ALF have some form of dementia. Now, should they vote?
It amuses me when I hear liberals downplay election fraud and claim it is almost nonexistent.
Putz
Voter fraud isn't rare. The prosecution of voter fraud may be rare, but not voter fraud.
If you simply looked at the low number of convictions for political corruption in Miami-Dade County, you would probably conclude that corruption does not occur here.
Don't confuse prosecutions and convictions with prevalence. They are not the same thing.
Rick Scott himself was wrongly removed from Florida's voter rolls. http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/d371adcca17e400a94197abcc2a8931c/FL--Florida-Voters-Scott
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