Senior Citizen Voter Bill of Rights

Senior Citizen Voter Bill of Rights

Senior citizens can face unique challenges with the electoral process as they deal with issues of aging. These can include sensory and mobility changes, access to transportation, or even a residence change to a new voting jurisdiction. At the American Constitutional Rights Union, we believe voting jurisdictions and senior residence communities must take all steps necessary to provide easy voting access for our seniors while also protecting their ballots from every form of vote fraud.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE

The federal Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 (VAEHA) is designed to assure the fundamental right to vote by directing polling locations to provide access for elderly and handicapped voters.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REGISTER TO VOTE

You also have the right to register to vote if you have changed your place of residence. Registration requirements vary by state and are found by calling your state, county or city election office. You may find your state’s requirements or directly register to vote at https://www.eac.gov/voters/register-and-vote-in-your-state. To avoid fraud, we recommend you contact your previous voting jurisdiction to ensure you are removed from their voter rolls.
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE AWARE OF VOTE FRAUD

After every recent election, there have been reports and prosecutions of people taking advantage of seniors to commit vote fraud by changing votes, inputting false choices and other crimes. Vote fraud is often committed face-to-face by people who will approach you to “assist” with filling out your ballot, or “delivering” your ballot to a polling location. You should only rely on trusted and known individuals to assist you with voting, and you have the right to refuse assistance from anyone you do not know or trust.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY

If any person is assisting you at your private home or residential facility with filling in your mail-in, absentee or in-person ballot, your choice is yours alone and should not reflect the political choices of the person providing assistance. You have the right to confirm your vote or to ask assistance from another trusted friend or relative to make sure your choice is clearly marked. Any person assisting you with transportation or accommodation at your home, residential facility or polling station has no right to ask you about your personal and private voting preferences or make a voting suggestion. Voting is confidential!
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ASSISTANCE FROM UNKNOWN PERSONS

Many political operatives are active in neighborhoods or facilities with a large senior population and have been known to manipulate or change votes. If you are approached by a stranger with offers of voting assistance, you have a right to refuse such help and request that the operative or unknown person leave your property or residential unit.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ASSISTANCE FROM UNKNOWN PERSONS

Many political operatives are active in neighborhoods or facilities with a large senior population and have been known to manipulate or change votes. If you are approached by a stranger with offers of voting assistance, you have a right to refuse such help and request that the operative or unknown person leave your property or residential unit.
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO AN ABSENTEE OR VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT

Although procedures for voting by mail or absentee ballots vary by state, every state must provide senior citizens with an absentee or mail in ballot when requested. You can find this information by calling your state or local election office or online at https://www.usa.gov/election-office.

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We Must Protect the Voting Rights of Our Elderly

It is most often the poor and the elderly who lose their votes to the ballot harvesters.

Washington Times, March 31, 2020

“There wasn’t a signature. There was just an ‘X’. She was either coerced or someone else put an x for her name.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 3, 2017

Florida law has failed to keep up with the growing popularity of mail-in voting, leaving candidates and campaigns free to manipulate voters — even to the point of helping them fill out their ballots, a Palm Beach Post investigation found.

Palm Beach Post, March 11, 2017

VOTING RIGHTS ISSUES IN THE NEWS

Why 30% of Florida’s voting is ripe for fraud

Florida law has failed to keep up with the growing popularity of mail-in voting, leaving candidates and campaigns free to manipulate voters — even to the point of helping them fill out their ballots, a Palm Beach Post investigation found.

Read the article.

Vote Fraud Uncovered at Nursing Home?

A young Republican is concerned he may have uncovered a case of vote fraud, involving his own grandfather, whom he asserts could have been unwillingly duped.

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EDITORIAL: Real reform: Voter fraud can be stopped by focus on the right targets

A federal judge in San Antonio last week rightly stopped a massive purge of Texas voting rolls, which invalidated the registration of many eligible voters and led to several lawsuits.

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Senate approves mail-in voter fraud bill, repealing nursing home law

The Senate on Friday approved a House-amended version of Senate Bill 5, which targets mail-in ballot fraud. But the altered bill repeals a nursing home voting law that passed with bipartisan support earlier this year.

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The Truth about the Nursing Home Voting Law and Voter Fraud

I was shocked to learn from my friend and colleague, Alan Vera, of the reversal and repeal of the nursing-home voting law (designed to prevent voter fraud) by the House during the current special session. Now, having read this article on the website for the Austin American-Statesman,Texas Two Step: House stiffens penalties for nursing home ballot fraud while repealing a bipartisan solution, I think the public record needs to be corrected about how this bill evolved to passage during the 2017 Regular Session.

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Find Voting Rights Violations in Nursing Homes

Not all long-term care residents get to exercise their right to vote. Dozens of nursing homes have violated residents’ voting rights. Find out more using our Nursing Home Inspect database.

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Nursing home resident’s son: ‘That’s voter fraud’

Lucy Corrato, a 91-year-old former South Philadelphia resident, is a longtime, dedicated nonvoter. She arrived at St. Francis Center for Rehabilitation & Health Care in 2014 having deliberately avoided voting for decades.

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Vote-by-mail makes fraud and errors worse

The congressional battle over the coronavirus relief bill is over. Efforts to federalize American elections, including by mandatory vote-by-mail and forced early voting, failed. Those who sought to preserve state control over elections won.

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WHY WE CARE

American Constitutional Rights Union deeply honors and appreciates America’s seniors for the positive influence and tremendous sacrifices they have made to ensure the safety and security of our nation at home and abroad. With our Protect Elderly Votes project, we hope to repay that debt, at least in part, by enhancing the security of senior votes.

We celebrate our patriotic seniors and the invaluable contributions they have made to the financial strength and fundamental freedoms we enjoy as Americans. In turn, we must take every action to ensure the integrity and intent of our seniors’ political choices at a time when they are at risk to be targets of vote fraud. Americans under 65 must demonstrate their gratitude for the continued guidance of our treasured seniors by protecting their votes.

The Hon. J. Kenneth Blackwell, Former Secretary of State for Ohio, ACRU Action Board of Directors

ACRU is dedicated to protecting seniors from vote fraud. Through our Protect Elderly Votes project, we created “Stranger Danger” to warn seniors and those caring for them to take steps to protect their ballots. If you suspect vote fraud, call ACRU’s Vote Fraud Hotline at 877-730-ACRU (2278). NEVER LET A STRANGER TOUCH YOUR BALLOT!

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Help defend the constitutional voting rights of elderly population by making a tax-deductible donation today. Your support helps us stand on the front lines fighting those working to take away their God-given liberties. Invest in protecting the rights of elderly citizens today!

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SIGN THE ELDERLY VOTING RIGHTS PETITION

The American Constitutional Rights Union and the American people deeply honor and appreciate our nation’s seniors for the positive influence and tremendous sacrifices they have made to ensure the safety and security of our nation at home and abroad.

By signing the Protect Elderly Votes Petition, I join with ACRU to repay that debt, at least in part, by enhancing the security of senior votes.

I pledge to use the resources of the Protect Elderly Votes project and the Senior Citizens Voter Bill of Rights to assist and educate our elderly relatives, neighbors and friends about registering to vote if they are in a new area of residence, and protecting them from any individual or institutional vote fraud or ballot manipulation.

I pledge to protect their intent when they are registering to vote as well as defending the integrity of their private ballot.

Thank you for your support!

ELDERLY VOTING HOTLINE

Have you had trouble voting or making sure your vote is counted? Do you know anyone who has? Let us know your experiences so we can take action.

Call us at 877 730 ACRU or contact us using the form below.

PROTECT ELDERLY VOTES

Protect Elderly Votes is a project of the

American Constitutional Rights Union.

Senior Citizen Voter Bill of Rights